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| All substances containing saccharine mat- ter are capable of producing ardent spirits, and hence we find rice extensively em- ployed for this purpose all over the East. The best known products arising from the distillation of the ferment" of rice are

Ir is has been said with a good deal of truth that writing for the Press is like making sugar-the more you boil it down the sweeter it gets. There is nothing like condensation, unless it be more

condensation.

in Assam is 1,591.5 lbs. of rice per acre. This figure is the mean deduced from four different classes of land in that country the best of which yields 3.150 lbs., and the worst 480 lbs. of rice per acre. It is un- necessary to adduce more figures, as AERATED WATERS, Arrack and Samshoo-the former being the productiveness of rice land depends Yoritoms Maru, Captain Cotter, reports that on the toth instant, while outward bound highly esteemed, and at one period used upon its situation and other local circum- from shanghai to Kuchinouu, she picked up the by both the Indian Army and Navy. Rice, stances. Uniformity under diversity ofcon- crew of a junk, they having abandoned their forming the principal food of nearly one-ditions is, of course, impossible. We have vessel, leaving her ashore on the North Bank; third the human race, and being so widely therefore eschewed the item of cost of pro-and they reported that she was breaking up." distributed, must be, and is, applied to a duction;, but, on this head, it is deserving Captain Cotter took the junk men on to Kuchi- variety of useful purposes other than those of notice that, in Burma, where rice is the notzu and brought them back here.-Shanghai mentioned. We have confined ourselves staple produce, its cultivation enables each Mercury. to its best known economic applications; Burmese household to expend as much but in China, the extent of its local as £12 per annum on imported European utilisation may be gauged from the an-

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We will now proceeed to describe the THE Portuguese troopship Africa, Captain cultivation of rice, and deal with other Antonio Duarte Pedroso, which arrived here this subjects of interest connected with its pro-morning from Macao, reports left Lisbon on the duction. Rice is essentially an aquatic 5th ultimo, with 345 passengers, recruits for the plant—hence its American designation of Police, relief for the Batalino do Ultramar, and their families. During the voyage she touched "Swamp Seed." It is best grown in low- at Port said, sucź, Aden, Point de Galle, and lands easily inundated, particularly deltaic singapore. A woman and a child died on the arcas. It is, therefore, called w/ cultiva

voyage. Arrived in Macao on the 2and instant, tion in India; but in that country, gener- and left Macao for this port this morning. she ally, it is produced in every variety of soil, has come over to Hongkong to be docked. at every altitude, and in every latitude.

A CORONER'S inquest was held yesterday after Warmth and moisture are, however, re- noon at the Gaol Office, before Mr. Wodehouse, quisite, the latter being more required in and a jury, on the body of a Chinaman who had the soil than the air, and may be compen- died in gaol, whilst undergoing six weeks' impri- sated for, at certain elevations, by damp- sonment with hard labour for unlawful possession, ness. Irrigated rice land is, as a rate, Dr. Ayres deposed that the deceased died from never manured, as the alluvial silt, always natural causes, and after hearing some evidence from the officers of the gaol, the jury returned a being deposited, contains in itself all the

verdict to that effect. As it appears to us that constituents of the original soil. This re- the proceedings in this and other cases of mark also applies to rice lands which are similar character-are, if not illegal, extremely periodically inundated. A rice crop has unsatisfactory, we shall deal at length with the Rick is, undoubtedly, the most valuable of been known to be raised from a deposit of subject in our next issue. all the cereal grasses in the Far East, a couple of inches of silt, overlying a bed of forming the principal, and, in most in-sand! The following is the procedure

The Hongkong Telegraph

WHAT cannot be regarded but as a scathing satire on, English artistic taste has recently been shown in an extraordinary blunder which appears to have been made in connection with Cleopatra's

Needle on the Thames Embankment. It was decided some time ago to place four sphinxes on

THE Canton steamer lekang was docked at Kow- The Portuguese transport loon last night. Africa went round to Aberdeen this forenoon A TELEGRAM dated, London January 23rd, was received yesterday afternoon announcing that the recently published report of the Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies recommends a counter-scheme, altogether ignoring the scrutin de liste.

THE adjourned inquest on the body of Tam Asan, who was found dead, hanging by the neck in Boi Hing lane on the morning of the 21st instant, was resumed this afternoon, at the Magistracy with the same jurors. After hearing evidence the jury returned a verdict of felo de se A REGULAR Convocation of Victoria Chapter

will be held in Freemason's Hall this evening at nine o'clock precisely. The principal business, according to the summons, will be installation of Principal and Officers elect, and to, clee Prin-:

each corner of a pedestal at the base of the cipals and Officers for the ensuing year. Needle. Two of these are now in their places, THE Kelly and Walsh missing safe case was and were uncovered recently. Instead of the again called before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse this the faces being turned towards the spectators, morning, when Inspector Ferry stated that he the faces are turned towards the Needle, while had no other evidence to offer against the pri the spectators view the sphinxes tails. The resoner, and that he had not found anyone else sult is Judicrous. Moreover, the impassiveness who saw him remove the safe. The Magistrate which is the main characteristic of the face of a then discharged the defendant, sphinx is not well preserved-indeed, one of the bronze figures seems to be laughing at the oddity of its position. We leam that in the design drawn by the architect entrusted with the work the sphinxes are made to face outwards. Many persons, it is stated, have visited the Embank ment to see what is really a strange effect.

"The various Governments and Municipal Cor porations have been applied to for information, and all Public Bodies and Companies, Bankers, Merchants, Consuls, and Professional and other. Residents, have supplied the necessary matter to ensure correctness upon forms sent for that purpose. The Naval and Military portions have been taken from the latest published official lists and revised at Head-quarters; in fact no pains have been spared to make "THE HONGKONG HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1882. DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" a perfectly reliable vade mecum.

"THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" will, in order that it be published at a POPULAR PRICE, and can be stances, only farinaceous article of food, adopted in respect to rice cultivation be exercised in a bad cause. A certain Baron and shame at his own unworthiness are too in this direction for not only is the yield from the Buy circulate extensively outside this Colony,

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throughout the settled districts of Southern India. The ground is ploughed superficl- ally, and divided into plots, separated by dykes from 1 to 2 feet high and wide

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A SOMEWHAT curious item of intelligence, says the M. C. Daily News, reaches us from the North. Li Hung-chang is said to have memora lised the Emperor against the establishment of the proposed Opium syndicate. No explanation of this very unexpected step on the Viceroy's part seems to be forthcoming at present; but we shall no doubt hear more about it later on. The fact OUR Peking Correspondent has referred more than once to the unwillingness of Pao Ting, sub-probably is that the negotiations have fallen Chancellor of the Grand secretariat, to accept through. the Junior Vice-Presidency of the Board of Rites, A PROPOS of our recent remarks regarding Trade on the ground that were he to hold that office he combinations, we observe that the celebrated would be incapacitated from making the fearless "cotton corner" in Liverpool has broken up, and exposures of official corruption, which have that a "copper corner" is the latest phase of hitherto formed the burden of his memorial to the trade combination in England. Ja New south Throne. The phraseology he employs in his Wales a coal combination has been formed is extremely quaint. He avows that his gratitude. mineral, but we doubt its having much influence petition, now published in the Peking Gazelle, with the idea of improving the value of that

great for words, and that the only merit, he pos Keelung mines as well as that from the Japanese esses is a certain foolish outspokenness," which, mines, rapidly increasing, but the Kaiping mines happily, commends itself to the Emperor heim- will, from March next, keep up a daily output of plores His Majesty to give him yet a little more the example of ste-ma Kuang in the sung dynasty; he hopes that, his appointment being cancelled, attention to the subjects he brings from time to the Emperor will condescend to give increased time under the sacred glance; and concludes by laying "this rash and ill-considered" expression of his opinion before the Throne with "profound est fear and trembling Inexpressible." The Em- peror, in reply, coolly tells Pao Ting to try and to be properly grateful for the favour he has received, message forwarded on Monday last, which and discharge the duties of his new post with authoritatively states that the insurrectionary movement in the whole of the three provinces, energy and care. It is often difficult to find out whether the servile petitions addressed by high Dalmatia, Herzegovina, and Bosnia is rapidly officers to the Throne are to be taken ou serieur spreading, and becoming an organised rebellion, or not; but the Emperor seems to pay very little | Everything tends to show that we are once more

of Europe; and upon the facts now before us, it is difficult to see how a collision between Austria on the one hand, and Turkey (supported probably by both Germany and Russia) on the other, can be well avoided.

Introduced into the work, but it may be fairly substances than any other grain, and is, enough for a man to walk. These ridges gaff hook, and night line. He simply dammed time to study the truths of antiquity; he quotes will soon render the Hongkong market altogether

There is not space in the compass of an ordi- nary advertisement to detail all the information asserted that no such Directory has ever been published, either in Hongkong, or any other part

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Its introgenous value is about a half of that of wheat, and less than one-tenth of that of fish, poultry, and meat. It, however, contains a larger amount of heat-giving

therefore, a valuable adjunct to those ar- ticles of diet which contain much nitrogen. Taken alone, the amount of rice required for the sustenance of life is comparatively very great, as the amount of nitrogenous or flesh-forming matter in its composition is only 7 per cent. The facility with which rice can be cooked, the little cost in preparing it, and its lightness in digestion, ---It will disappear from the stomach in one hour-are all recommendations to its use, as the cleaning, grinding, and cook- ing of the harder grains cost much time

d'Ideville, living near Macon, in the department of the Saône-et-Loire, bas just paid the penalty of his great talent for fish pozching. It seems that the baron did not resort to the commen practice of using the net, while he foreswore the up a small stream for the space of about a mile, the water, leaving the lively trout and grayling rigged up a steam pump, and then exhausted all high and dry. For this display of ingenuity he had to pay a fine of one hundred francs, and his patent pump has been destroyed.

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some 600 tons or more. There sources of supply independent of either English or Australian Coal.

stated that Bosnia was reported to be in a dis- WE published a home telegram yesterday which turbed state, and observed that as Herzegovina was actually in a state of insurrection it would have been singular if the neighbouring province had remained quict. That our views were correct to the letter may be gathered from the latest

TREATY PORTS IN CHINA AN and money. It is generally eaten, as our just submerge it. A perfectly uniform bed that they are a peculiar order of priveleged attention to them in any case.-N. C. Daily News. on the eve of very serious troubles in the East

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who comes there on his own business. He can

serve to retain water when required, and to draw it off when inundation is no longer necessary. The ground being prepared, the water is let on, and the "paddy" (Malay, husked rice)-sced is scattered through the inundated field, as usual. In some instances, before being sown, the paddy is allowed to show signs of germinadorse you condemnation of the scandalous tion by being immersed in water. It is and outrageous behaviour of a certain local Bar rister on a recent occasion in the Supreme Court, generally at first sown pretty thickly, and

and that such unchecked insolence by Counsel to afterwards transplanted to the land which an adverse witness should have been permitted, it is to finally occupy. The plant requiries, unchecked, in a British Court, in reference to in its carlier stages, as much water as will "the evident feeling among lawyers of all sorts, readers know, boiled; but it is not gene. would, therefore, appear to be a sine quâ beings, to whom the law and law-courts belong, rally understood that it is best steamerl, as

Some Indian Irrigation Engineers or at least for whose profit and glory they exist," the rice-water (conjee), which is some- estimate that a rice crop requires 38 cubic the following quotation is well worth the serious consideration of the Hongkong "Bench and times thrown away, contains some albu-feet of water per hour per acre for 50 Bay: "member of the bar has no minous matter, and the grain, loses in nu days, while others consider a cubic yard standing in court superior to that of anybody else tritive power by its abstraction. It might for the same area and periods sufficient. perhaps, provoke a smile if we continue this in the granary of Southern India, Tanjore have no other or higher rights than those of a party. scientific exposition of the art of cookery (1) General Sir ARTHUR COTTON'S training for all his rights are derived from his employer, But we anticipate that our readers school-the quantity allowed for the same

and he cannot open his mouth at all except as cost-that it purpose is as much as 34 cubic yards which, that employer's mouth piece. He is entitled to is not every one that can boil a potato or however, providesa rather wide margin for no special courtesy, for he, and all present, are cook a steak, as simple as these culinary wastage, including absorption and evapor. equally below the Court, equally subject to its orders, and equally liable to its criticism and re- operations may appear to be. We have, ation. In marshy countries rice is pro-buke. He is entitled to the same courtesy and therefore, no hesitation in adding for the duced at a trifling cost of labor. In un-consideration from the Court as are due to a imformation of those who believe in settled countries, like parts of the Malayan "Curry and rice," that in preparing rice Peninsula, hill tracts of Burma, etc., rice by boiling no more water should be used is produced by the improvident waste of than the grain is capable of absorbing, forest. In these countries, the soil has and it is recommended, that the water only to be tickled with a hoe to laugh with should simmer and not boil hard. Readers a harvest. The scrub and undergrowth of Indian History might remember the in- of forest are burned down wherever con. cident of the Seige of Arcot, in the days venient, the soil raked and planted, and, of Clive, where the Madrassee Sepoys, when the crop is once cut, the ground when provisions were scarce, were content abandoned for another plot elsewhere, with the rice or conjee-water, reserving where a like process is repeated during the the grain boiled in it for the European following season. This method of cultiva soldiers, We have adduced this circum- ting rice is, in Burma, called toungya, and stance to show that the Asiatic is fully alive in that country legislative enactments have

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Daily News on the subject of the Canton in- surance Office as follows:-"Ainongst the many subjects so ably treated in your columns it is rather surprising that the "Canton Insurance Office' Limited" has escaped notice, the position | WE pointed out the other day the readiness of as it stands at present being somewhat unique. our evening contemporary to make comic (1) Presumably the Company has been undertaking capital out of the blunder of other newspapers. business from the 1st January, although no by a purely clerical enter the Straits Times response to the Shanghai applications for shares spoke of Earl Clanwilliam as commanding the has so far been vouchsafed. The question na-Dutch instead of the British squadron, and the turally suggests itself In the event of a heavy loss or losses being sustained, would the ap plicants be bound to stand by their applications? and also, who are the parties, responsible to the policy holders? The payment of a deposit of $to per share on application must have placed a large sum of money at the disposa of the General Agents (it is rumoured that money is being used, but presume that must be incorrect) and disappointment will naturally be felt by many who have lain out of such moneys But the lawyer comes of his own accord,

for about a month, and who eventually may for his own profit, and nobody can pre-receive no allotment, to say nothing of the pos- vent him from staying away, if he does not think that his dignity is sufficiently considered." sibility of losses accruing in the interval which Further, it cannot but be conceded that the may render the shares a less desirable invest "Bench" is much to blame in this matter by ment, with, it may be, no option of refusing allowing the "Bar" the unscrupulous exercise of powers in cross-examination which is a disgrace to the Administration of British Law. The sub

party or witness-to as much and no more. If indeed, there is any reason for treating him dif- ferently, it is a reason for treating him with less consideration. Witnesses and defendants are compelled to come into Court, very often to their great inconvenience

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HE HONGKONG DIRECTORY in his scant-dietary-Our-readers-might-criminate waste and wholesale destruction from which "our Judiciary" might draw profit not been observed by our vernacular contem- China Mail are altogether crroneous, the Club

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China Mail devoted a special paragraph in a feeble attempt to be satirical at the expense of the singapore journal. A home paper, the Over- and Mail, alluding to Colonel Hall's retirement, transposed that officer's initials, and the ultra- correct Hongkong evening paper shows its good taste and notions of journalistic etiquette by crowing over what is merely a typographical mis- take. The old saying about the inadvisability of residents in glass houses throwing stones at their neighbours can be very aptly applied to our evening contemporary. The China Mall of last evening contains what is supposed to be an ac- curate account of a cricket match, played yester day between the Hongkong C. C. and the mem-

Introduction we are told that "the Club got, bers of the Fire Brigade. In the three lines of

beaten by an innings and 51 ruins" whereas the AN extraordinary story has been current in the

game terminated exactly the opposite way, as capital for some days; and if we have refrained will be seen by a glance at our account of the.. from publishing it sooner, the same reticence has match in another column. The stores in the

poraries. It appears-so the story runs-that of being credited with scoring 73 and 74 in two two gentlemen-both employés of the Japanese innings, and the Brigade with 197 for a single Government and both married men-one engaged essay. The whole of the report is a gross the other's wife some time ago to play the part blunder, of which any decent newspaper of Guinevere to his Launcelot. One day the would be ashamed. One man is put down as audience was increased by King Arthur-tob. s. 1. ct. St. Croix," whatever that may mean pursue our allegory-who adopted the very We should not have thought it worth while to sensible expedient of putting Guinevere, not in notice these egregious blunders as we can make charge of the Abbess of Almesbury, but on mistakes ourselves had it not been for the paltry board the mail steamer, instructing his lawyer at manner in which the Ching Mall tried to sneer the same time to set matters in train for obtain- at the Straits Times and Overland Mail for " ing a divorce. There the affair ended for the simple typographical errors, not one fiftieth part nonce, as the gentlemen, though natives of a so flagrant as those we have just pointed out, as country where duelling is still fashionable, agreed, the errors of the evening print are of a totally it is said, not to interfere with their official different nature, duties attempting to cut or wound one another. Launcelot fately, for according to the most something, however, seems to have ruffled sir

recent intelligence, be planted himself a few days The E and A. steamer Cafterthun left Port ago outside King Arthur's gate, and fired two Darwin on the 15th, and is due here on the 35th shots with a revolver at the monarch as the lan latter was about to issue into the street. The King's equery or not to put to fine a point on it, his beffomanaged to disconcert sir Launce Jog's aim, and to`saved the monarch's life, receiv. ing, however, a grievious castigation from the knight in consequence so far therefore, the un fortunate befois the only one hurt that is to say physically-but if this shooting be true-which we greatly doubt-It is not romantic to expect a acquel. We do not say that the story is entirely

to facts concerning an important element been found necessary to check the indis-joined remarks are quite apropos to the subject, with advantage to the public. It is one of the have heard of glutinous rice." This 'a arising from it,

most neglected duties of a Court to make such variety of the Koung-seen, or hill-rice of On the Coast of Africa, rice ripens in people (Counsel) know and keep their place, both Burma, which has to be prepared for use three months; in India from, three to as regards their superiors on the bench, and their in vapour, rendered necessary from the four months. Two, and even three crops equals in the witness box, to rid their minds of property it possesses, when cooked, of the have been raised from the same plot in the notion that they have, like the Court, authe THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY grains all adhering in a thick glutinous one year. It is exceedingly difficult to rity to command, to censure, and to rebuke. It is the duty of counsel to speak to, or about, mass. It would be difficult to mention the obtain reliable statistics of production in

witnesses in the language and manner which many varieties of rice, differing as they do Eastern countries. English and Burmese

gentlemen use in transacting ordinary basiness, in color and composition. For instance, merchants, who have gone into the sub-if they know how. If they do not, then it is the in one district of India, Assam, there are ject, usually say that the average yield of business of the Court to teach them, by lessons at least twenty kinds of rice grown, all of good rice lands in Burma ranges from 40 mild or severe, according as the disposition of different values and specific gravity, proto 50 bushels per acre. The somewhat the pupil may show to be required. Your duced on different kinds of land. The meagre experiments made by Government strictures on local junes, are, I think, unneces "Carolina" is considered the best of the Officials in that country all point to ansarily severe, as the parties to a case possess many American varieties; but, probably, average yield of over 35 baskets of paddy with and without cause. "The integrity of our -the right of "challenging" objectionable jurors, the finest kind of all is the Bengal table rice. equivalent to 24 bushels of clean rice per Judges is undoubted," but their capacity may be The essential difference between rice and acre. As would be expected the foungya questioned, from the anomalies you present as wheat consists in the presence of a subrice lands yield smaller and more uncertain practiced by "Bar" and "Juries," and on which stance called gluten in the latter, nearly results. It has been estimated generally you animadvert. Personally, I have heard a Judge absent in the former. This accounts for that an acre of 'rice will produce from 25 in Hongkong enunciate from the Beach 'a pris the fact that rice, of itself, is capable only to 30 bushels of 1,600 to 2,000 pounds of ciple, in a summary Jurisdiction suit, lately heard, of imperfect fermentation, which renders clean grain, equivalent to a yield of from which made me consult the "Inns of Court Calen it unfit for being baked into bread. The 1100 to 120 to 1. In the Straits, rice land dar, in reference to some doubts to which the cidet manufactured ingredient derived from gives an average return of 117) fold; the strange decision gave rise to say the least, the rice is starch, which is largely used in maximum degree of productiveness being procedure was as novel as the law and equity propounded--leading only to one inference, vix, laundries and cloth manufactories through 150 fold, equal to 4.520 lbs. clean rice per that the working of the law in this Colony is very out the world. This ingredient forms 78 orlong or 3,390 lbs per acre. The propor- different from what I have been accustomed to per cent. of the composition of rice, and is ton of paddy husk to the enclosed grain is see and hear in other portions of Her Majesty's without foundation, but we hope to hear it basgaria left singapore on the morning of the atthy capable of being: converted into sugar,

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The Union Line steamer Escambia, from Lon- don, left singapore for this port on the 17th and is due here on or almut the 25th instant

The O. &.& Co.'s steamer. Telemachus left singapore on the afternoon of the 17th, and many

expected here on or about the 25th inst The D. D. R. steamer Electra left singapore on the 18th, and may be expected here on of about the 26th instant.

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The E and A. steamer Bowen loft Sydney on the 14th January, and is due here on or about the site 6th February.

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