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THE ORIGINAL HAIG WHISKY

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 18rn, 1998.

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THE PRINCE AND THE HIGHLANDS.

[YROM HER OWN' CORRESPONDENT.]

EDINBURGH, April 11th,

FORTUNES IN A NIGHT.

WONDERFUL ROMANCE OF..

PETROLEUM.

After spending the nineteen years of her life in sordid poverty an Indian girl has recently erme into an income of $24,000 year. Under a small of land of which

place she was the owner, prospectors found oil, and wealth came to her in a day.

It is possible, I hour, that the Prince of Wales will take over a sporting catate in the Highlands during the shooting season. He wishes to entertain rather extensively when he is in the North, and it is doubtful if his When you think of the enormous parties and those of the King could be pro- petroleum plays in the world to-day, it is verly arranged for if he stays as hitherto athari to realize that within the momory of Balmoral.

PEN PORTRAIT OF KARL BALFOUR,

Lo Balfour will be interested in scans, ning the portrait of himself painted by Mr. H. G. Wells in “Men Like Gods," us the urbane, philosophieal Conservative leader, grasping the lapels of his coat when he

ête, a portrait no one can fail to recognise. But this pop into the looking ginss is no new experience for Lord Balfour, if as is probabile, he has real Miss Elizabeth Robin's story of Miss Cal." There There WC are introduced Berwick, the tall and very slim man who has inherited a position in the forefront of British politics. With the exercise of an almost despotic power he combines a

a personal charm that calculated to disarm

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There are men still alive who joined in the ridicale heaped on Colonel Drake when, one day in 1830, he fared forth into the wilderness of Pennsylvania to discover the hiding places in which he felt sure the earth kept her treasures of oil.

THOUGHT HE'D GONE CRAZY. Everybody, even his dearest friend, thought that Drake had gone crazy" when che set forth on his absurd quest for oil, of which they know acthing except that rather wonderful it was the basis of

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Drake made his way with one companion

his opponenta Yet in this charm of anile to the Oil Creek Wilderness, and on July and manner there is something slightly 1st, 186, the first drill was put down. Ou morning of August 30th, with the is male still closer by a description drill having been left the night before down of Berwick's fastidious and circumscribed some 70 feet and still no oil in sight, the taste in music and literature. The authoress pioneers discovered to their delight that the undoubtedly intended the character in the well was full of oil. novel to be identified; the name she gave hin suggests North Berwick, the home golf-course within easy reach of Lond Balfour's seat at Whittingehame.

ME, MAXTON IN FICTION.

Many of the readers of Mrs. Agnes Hamil ton's lateat political novel, in which the faly daughter of the wicked capitalist mar ries a Lalour Parliamentary candidate, must have wondered if the hero was drawn from life. He was. Mrx, Hamilton adhrits that the original of the character is Mr. James Maxton, the Labour member for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow.

NEW SCOTTISH MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Mr. Charles Frederick-Thora-on, M.P., lias been appointed Solicitor-General for Scot land, in succession to Mr. D. P. Flewing, K.C. resigned. From 1910 to 1922 he acteil ૧ Parliamentary Secretary to Sir Robert Horne.

Mr. Ford, M.P., for North Edinburgh, is to be the Scottish Whip in succession to Mr. FC. Thomson, the new Solicitor General. Mr. Ford's brother-in-law, it is interesting to ecte, is Chief Whip of the Independent Liberals.

THE LOCH MAREK TRAGEDY RECALLED.

ed in

Major Fearnley Anderson, one of the Seaforth Highlanders' officers who shot at Lundi Kotal, spent part of his leave last August at Loch Maree in Basshire, and his wife was one of the victims of the botulism poisoning case which created such a sensation throughout the whole world. On the morn- ing of the tragedy Major Aixlerson arxl bis wife weat out fishing together on Loch Maret

wered by #

& ghilie, and the

Giving evidence at the public inquiry which followed thatragody, Major Anderson said that there were two packets of sandwiches, one containing potted meat, and the other beef sandwiches. His and he took the wife preferred potted Beat, beef sandwiches. The remanants of his wife's packet and his own be gave to the ghillie. His wife retired to bed, and male ao com plaint at all. It was about six o'clock on the following morning when his wife coraplained

Dobit of feeling " dizzy. Her husband at- tributed it to biliousness, and went out:

fisit- ing again, and was back in the hotel in the afternoon. His wife's condition was very alarming, she suddenly became very much worse and died on the following morning. STRIKÉ AGAINST GERMAN" TRAWLERS.

In a short time they had dipped from it barrelful, and, a few days later, this pioneer barrel of crude petroleum was sold at Pittsburg for $24 (about £8),

was

Such was the first romantic tapping of the earthi's reservoir of oil, which destined to such a splendid future and to change paupers into millionaires.

WI

BARREN ACRES WORTH MILLIONA, It was not long before the Funk Well

"Fountain," known to fame as the gushing oil at the rate of 1,000 barrels a day; and Farmer Funk was able to dispose of leases, royalties and interests in his barren neres for such a sum as made him more than a millionaire within a month.

of

Even more romantic was the experience James Sherman, who purchased the lease of a farro for £100 the entire fortune of his wife and himself.

To raise a little working capital be disposed of an eighth interest in

lease

urtered for an engine to sink the well. for £100, and another eighth interest he

As his funds became exhausted without a glimpse of oil to reward his enterprise, be parted with further shares one-sixteenth he was able to exchange for £15 and a shotgun another sixteenth he bartered for a horse, which he sold for £20; and for a third sixteenth interest he was glad to get $10

1,500 BARKELS A DAY.

A few hours after the last transaction the

drill dropped into the sand, and the Sher- man Well began spouting at the rate of 1,000 barrels a day.

For two years the well continued to low, yielding in that time more than 2,000,000 barrels of ail.

investiment of the engine, the gun and the The £100 put in by Sherman, and the horse yielded no less than £1,600,000 to the lucky speculators, of which Sherman's share Was i round |*£1,000,000.

To-day there are at least 30000 oil weils Pennsylvania alone, ranging in depth from 500 to 3,000 feet; and in a dozen other States the earth is yielding oil in tens of millions of barrels yearly..

or

this year caine from the other side, but this seems to be the firs; indication either con firming

contradicting it. Willia Hunter (35) I have

written already you) is now officially appointed secretary of an important Californian Club. The For several weeks an agitation has bean news about the Scottish amateurs who have growing in Aberdeen against the landing made their home in America is interesting, of German caught tish. Latterly it cul that about Hunter particularly so, because minated in a strike by the masters, the there have been stories of his entering the mates, and the fishermen of the Scottish professional ranks; and as the Americans boats using the port. It may be mentioned have adopted our definition of an amateur that Aberdeen is now one of the chief the acceptance of a a paid appointment a centres of the fishing, industry in Britain. a clul secretary does not affect his status, Some

300 trawlers are swinging idly at

and removes say doubt which may have their moorings in the barbour, and there

CANADIAN STORE CATTLE ONCE MORE.”

It is 31 years since consignment of Canadian

cattle landed in this sture

existed as long as he was acting repre little immediate prospect of their sentative of a firm interested in the sale of

plax fours." being again put into conmission. Primarily the strike way only against fish caught by the Germans in the North Seu, now it 13 extended to the German trawlers

awlers coming in from the iceland seas with cargoes of cod.

The Hull and Grimsby shore fishermen country, and the first ship load to arrive with the Aberdeen boycot, and at Glasgow had what was really a civic as the

Merklands wharf was scrubbed

the importation of fish to the English markets and

attendants had by Datel and Danish

which to vessels, it is possible brand-new overalls in

shepherd Canadian that the North

animals; and a

High Com- purts the against any foreign landings, maissioner personally escorted the first stear With memories of the war so recent it is ashore down a freshly white-washed and doubtless galling to the Aberdeen fishermen hay-carpeted gangway. This animal was to see boats of the nation that used such rather, frisky, and

breaking a rathless methods against them as the symbolical barrier of red-tape at the edge of submarine, and tropedo, now competing the wharf, knocked down the High Com- advantageously in the fish trade. But so missioner and had a gay little frolic all to

Free Trade country the

ntry the itself. The only punishment merted out, to reblic will insist on buying in the cheapest auction, which raised a sum of 2000 however, was to be exposed to "snow- market, and even the most convinced

sympathopers and mates also oppose the spotlessly clean,

will be tied-up fleet at both these i

as we are i

afber

Protectionists would not yeature to prepost for the local Unemployment Fund. that foodstuffs, of which fish is an im

portaat item, should be excluded if SCOTTISH CHURCH UNION. they are of foreign origin. Besides,

It is a promising sign for the cause of Scot-

that policy were adopted, the foreigner tish Church Union that a way out of the would be sure to retaliate, and Gerogay, endowments dificulty has been brought which in or used to be among our best within sight. An impartial and capable

for certain kinda of fish, might connimously come

Committee, gaided by Lord Haldane, has make us pay dearly for excluding German-

conclusion in favour caught fish fron our

There is thus of

of the abolition of the teinds markets

surplus teinds by

customers

to a

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GOSSIP ABOUT GOLFERS.

Some interesting bits of gossip about golfers are to hand. Gene Barazen has been granted leave by his club and will be at troon T. D. Armour has given ap his an pointment as secretary of the Westchester Clab, where the millionaires play, and with lua brother Sandy has opened golf store in New York. Mrs. Wethered says that the idea of competing in the American Ladies' Opon Championship has never occurred to her daughter. The statement that our Lady. Champion would make the trip to the States (Continued at 100% of next column.).

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