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The prospectus of the Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited, has been extensively advertised, and details at length full particulars of the lated sugar enter-

although it is rather difficult to understand | THE shanghai Mercury of the 25th lust, says: A RECENT issue of the well known Russian paper by what means the necessary information We regret to record an accident to Mr. Reynell; | Nevee Frempa states that there is considerably. could be satisfactorily obtained. Cine foa. immediately up mounting a bay pony of his increased activity at the Ministry of Marine, 'and nwn, the animal holted out of the gate, and began that the improvement of the Black sma feel is net at last being thrown, on the hard road, and a series of buck-jumps, which ended in Mr. Rey-

one of the chief measures in contemplation.

ture in this new enterprise can hardly be overlooked. We remember, when it was

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Cannonication ya Eliturial matters should be addressed The Fafire," and thene en lasiness. The Monlger," an! metu moka ilmade by sume. Corespondents are repiesteil zor forward thelt unme and address with canivuncatiuus ade dressed to the Elite, unt for publication, but as evidence of god uk. All letters for publication shock be writera ani cape kishe of the paper only, amil rejected communications capi mbe secured. Adversivetnents, ami Sastriptisans which are my prideteil for a fixed perial will be continued until contended.

say & Co.. had been maneuvring to ob carefully studied and cannot have failed to thin the General Agency of the Hongkong thoroughly comprehend Jakaisa, Matheson

and Whampoa Dark Company, that a & Co.'s most recent angle for one more shareholder at one of that Company's Permanent General Agency, we are meetings ventured to give his opinion that spared the necessity of dealing wither elaborately or critically with the subject had fallen into the hands of the "princely if the management of the Dock Company Sugar refining in Manila has not hitherto been such a striking success as to indurthouse" they would have made a gond as to place a great deal of faith in the thing out of it. So it is in the present chances of the proposed Company, even al-

instance. Whatever may be the fate of though the influence of the General Agents the Luzan Sugar Refining Company, it must count for a great deal. We are con-

seems pretty clear that Messrs. JARDINE. fitently told that the Luzon Refinery has MATHESON & Co. cannot fail to make now been at work for the past two years, gond thing out of it.” and has prodired results which justify the promoters of this Company in undertaking the development of the enterprise to an extent which will meet the existing current demand for its produce. What the existing current demand may be, is doubtless emin. ently satisfactory to the promoters of the new concera, and it is to be hoped, it may prove equally gratifying to the company's

shareholders.

We are told that a contract has been

made with an influential sugar clayer and [7 dealer in Manila for the purchase of his valuable landed, property, consisting of 1 263,625 square feet, with water frontage, and the extensive Godowns, Dwelling House, and Office thereon, all ready for immerliate occupation, situated at Malabon, one of the suburbs of Manila. Also that the Plant of the Old Refinery has been re- moved to Malabon, and the aditional Machinery necessary to produce upwards of twenty thousand piculs of Refined Sugar per month is on its way from England. The above valuable property has been ac quired for the sum of $220,000, payment for which it is agreed shall be made by 370,000 in cash, and the balance in fully paid up shares in the Company,

The Houghong Telegraph

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Ax announcemem, says the Overland Moi, which, like ali announcements of the present day, has been contradicted of what may be called a semi-liplomatic charter has been made public. Mdme, de, Novikoff, who for a long time has acted as a sort of unoficial Russian Ambas andress--not, indoeil, to the Court of St. James's, but we may almost say, perhaps, to the Count of St. Stephen's has been recalled." "The lady known as 'O. K. left England,” so runs the para graph, "on Sunday for Moscow, and, we are informed, will probably not return to this coun- try."

There, then, is the end of the lady's informal mission; but, remarks a contemporary, she will return home unoppressed, we should imagine, by any sense of failure-or, it may even be, filled with virtuous satisfaction at the thought of good work done. For many months together, and for ours, she contrived to exert a more or less months very critical both for her own country

potent influence over a very considerable number of not inconsiderable persons, and in particular to impress her ideas upon one whom subsequent events have proved to be the most powerful man in the country. It is true that the inter develop ments of these ideas have been injudicious, and that apparently it is for the too great zeal of her efforts to promote them that Mdme, de Novikoff has incurred the displeasure of her employers in St Petersburg. But perpetual success in any mitier is not to be had by man or woman; and "0. K." has good reason to be content with her own measure of it.

was probably frightened at the martingale, which was of course quite strange to a raw griffin. Mr. Reynell is pot seriously injured, and will be, no doubt, quite well in a day or two.

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tions to the China Merchant steam Navigation Company is the steamer known as the 'ycliffe. After being overhauled, repainted, &c., she has come out of the Old Block with a new name, she will henceford be known, under the "Dragon flag," as The Kung-pas,

WHILE Parliament goes on talling and quarcel

in military circles as to who is to succeed sir The ford says There is much-gossip afloat

Gariiet Wolseley in the past of quanet.apster. general. It has been stated, but quite premaling, with no other result that to find itself exactly turely, that sir Evelyn Wood will get the appoint in the same place at which it stated, it cannot ment. Another report gives it to General Dillon, be expected that any steps should be taken to who is already on the Horse Garaids staff. A prevent such common occurrences as colliery third name has not been mentioned rauch, that accidents. The public expects an account of of sir Archibald Alison, who is actually in the these explosions every week or two, and we have Quartermaster-General's Department already as

now to record the latest, which occurred at Hart- the chief at Adair House, and who has probably lepool last night, at Tindon Grange Colliery, a better chance than anybody. Sir Archibald the property of Mr. Walter scout, who employs has ruled the Intelligence Department quietly,ver three hundred men. It seems that about but well. Another solution of the question is one hundred and thiity men were working in the quite on the cards-that no quartermaster-general seam at the time the explosion took place; but it' will be apointed at all. It is well known that is hoped that owing to the zeal and energy of sir Garnet is strongly in favour of the plan of those who endeavoured to rescue the victims, having a chief of the staff; in other words, one many of this number may be yet saved. It is, head staff officer at the Horse Coards. The however, fair to infer from the reports to hand adjutant-general has seen his practically for some that more than half of those employed in the few years; but he can only be so really when he mine when the disaster occurred will lose their has no one closely approximating to his own lives-more particularly as the explorers were status, as a quartermaster-general must be. By delayed half an hour, owing to something being appointing two deputy quartermasters-general to wrong with the machinery.—Overland Mail. divide the duties of the higher functionary, Sir Garnet would be left indisturbed possession of the dignity and power of a chief of the staff,

ACCORDING to a recent issue of Truth, an arbi- tration case is pending in regard to the now famous Borneo Concession, between Baron von MARY JANE FURNEAUX allor "Lord Arthur Pel- Overbeck, late Austrian Consul-General at Hong- ham Clinton," the latest feminine adventurer, has kong and Alfred Dent, of the firm of Dent, mystery and the love of rank; and though such tration was held last Monday week before Mr. appealed to two very common passions, the love of Brothers & Co. The first sitting under the arbi-

son, is seldom altogether fruitless, Miss Furneaux pute is a question of accounts between Mr. Dent an appeal, when made by a tolerably acute per- Cohen, Q.C., MP. It would appear that the dis must have been surprised at her own success.

and the Baron. The latter was the personal To bamboozle a number of apparently sane and negotiator of the concession, which he purchased sensible people to the tune of something like from the sultans of sooloo and Brunci. "The con- £10,000, is a feat which it is given to few 10 per-sideration given was a certain number of Mexican foun, and Miss Furneaux's fitness for the vocation dollars, these bring the only coins known to these in life to which she has devoted herself, is proved dusky monarchs, and the promise of an annuity. by the fact that some of her victims are even now The Baron complains that, although the conces sure that she is the person she represents herself sion as been sold for a large sum to a Company, to be. The case is a very curious one. It will he has been "left out in the cold," his share of The Patent rights for the Philippine No branch of local commercial enterprise

be remembered that some unpleasant circum- the plunder mainly consisting in the title of Ra. has made such giant strides in recent years Islands in the Weinrich Palent, together

stances in Lord A. P. Clinton's life induced ajah of Gaya and sandakan and Maharajah of as the sugar refining industries of Hong. With the Machinery, Business, and Good-

widespread, though unicasonable, suspicion that Sabah, and the power of life and death over the kong. It is only a few years ago since the will of the Luzon Sugar Refinery, exceping Upon the frontier treaty just concluded between the story of his death was a fiction and his subjects of these two sultans, whils! Mr. Dent's share has taken the more valuable form of Bri- prosperous establishment at East Point surplus stores and furniture (which are to Russia and Persia, Professor Vambéry has pub-funeral a fraud, and to take advantage of this be sprang imo existence, and although its be taken over at a valuation), have boun lished some important remarks in the Age lief was undoubtedly clever; but then, on the tish sovereigns. Pendente life, this is all that I

feel at liberty to say on this curious case." original proprietors -for reasons which purchased from the present proprietors for meine Zeitung, of Augsburg. The micke is other hand, consideration for the dead cannot need not be alluded to here-failed to $300,000, and will be paid for in fully-paid-headed "sarikhs, Mers, and Herat," The writer blind us to the fact that his lordship's antece-

says There is something very strange in the dents were hardly of a kind to explain the implicit | COMMENTING on the negotiations respecting the reap the benefit of their spirited under-up shares in the Company.

aking, it has been gradually develop-

We believe we are right in assuming that coincidence of the famous speech of General confidence which has been felt in his prettype. Anglo-Franco commercial treaty, the Graphic ed by judicious management and the the proprietors of the Weinrich Patent for skoleloff with the conclusion of the Russo-Per We can only explain these things on the Clai- observes that those of us who desire to see the sian Treaty. By this instament the King of man's theory, that nature provides people with period of suspense and uncertainty which has command of unlimited capital into one

the Philippines, with the machinery, plant. Persia is alleged to have voluntarily ceded to money and no brains for the use of people with

now lasted so long brought to an end by the con- of the most remunerative undertakings ever

ke, of the Luzon Sugar Refinery are

Russia that part of the northela border of Iran brains but no money.-Overland Mail.

clusion of fairly equitable taxi-arrangements associated with the commercial history of Messrs. JARDINE, Maresos, & Co. It is stretching from Askahabad to sarakhs, thus

between the two countries have reason to repent further estimated that the cost of transfer-realising Russia's long-cherished desire to have A GENERAL order by His Royal Highness the conduct might be towards bis own countrymen, the fall of M. Ganibetta. However distasteful his the Colony. The career of the second

of the new machinery already purchased. Everybody knew beforehand that it was not for observes the Overland Mail, notifies numerous Free Trade than those of any of his predecessors known as the Oriental Sugar Refinery, has THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS || been almost identical to that of the parent

nothing that Russia squandered millions on the important alterations which have been made in and the expense of completing the new

East Caspian Railway from Michailovsk 10 Bann, the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army

in the Premiership. In the present Cabinet, on institution at East Point. Established by sugar house will amount to $72.000.

provided General Rohrberg, skobeleff's successor, with reference to enlistments and services-sub- towards accommodation, there exists a strongly.. the other hand, in spite of M. Léon Bay's efforts. The capital of the Company will be with ample means for arming the Turkoman forts, jects which at the present me are occupying accentuated Protectionist element in the person. the energy of the same gentleman who founded the East Point Refinery, die $700.000, from which amount after com- and fixed her gaze upon the hit her to barren steppes much attention. Recruiting officers are for the

of M. Tirard, and the utmost we can probably ex- SHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY Oriental dragged out a short and weary pleting the above purchases, &c., a balance of this part of Central Asia. This new trick of Rus future to be appointed by His Royal Highness. THE

existence until want of sufficient capital to for working the business of $108,000 will sian policy, therefore, cannot surprise us. But and not, as formerly, by the approving officer."ect is that M. de Freycinet will allow the con- give the undertaking anything like a fair be left. Of the 7,000 shares requisite, it is astonishing with what feverish haste Russia Every facility is to be given to men who wish to cessions made by the Gambetta Cabinet to remain OFFICERS ON THE CHINA | prospect of successfully working against a 5.500 are sail to have been already sub. has worked at her plans which she has always enlist in the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, or

unaltered. "But we do not yet know that those hitherto kept secret. In this instance her pre Foot Guards, and with respect to recruits in the concessions are sufficient to satisfy the demands Including the most recent appointments and local the closing of the business, and it shared 500 shares for Manila, the remaining 1.000 cipitation was apparently caused by very imArmy Hospital Corps, the age swain to on the they will not set their hands to a treaty of a

powerful opposition ultimately necessitated scribed for, and it is intended to reserve the fate of its predecessor by falling into being now offered at par to be allotted at pitate advance against the western branches of correct age in all subsequent transactions or seemed insufficient, the chances are that the

portant motives.. Her extraordinary and preci- first page of the attestation will be taken as the the hands of the all powerful Dictators of the discretion of the consulting committee. Paropanisus at a time when she did not wish to correspondence; but the "age physically equiva} ncgotiations may be broken off altogether. As. the Far East.

The only other important feature of the startle her Liberal friends on the Thames is ex- lent to" will be the guide in rejecting a recruit

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It is not our intention to trace the past undertaking to which we need refer is the plained by two important reasons. It was the who does not come up to the minimum of age re- history of the China Sugar Refining Com-clause which provides for the whole husi-excellence of the soil and the immense agquired for the service, and the apparent age" pany, Limited, nor to specially allude to its future prosperts. The last issued official statement of the Company's doings speaks volumes, anil to those interested will afford scope for grave reflection after a careful comparison with previous reports. How ever, it may be accepted as a matter of fact that the prosperous career of the celebrated THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY East Point Refinery has brought several other Richmonds into the field. The Re-

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we have already urged, it is far better to have no treaty at all than to have one which fetters our cultural value of the newly acquired territory will be the guide in rejecting one who may be own trade for the sake of pleasing the French. To a nation like ours, whose tariffs are supposed that prompted her to annexation, regardless bore the maxium age at which recruits are British susceptibilities. The so-called north-east taken. Under the head "Medical Examination, to be based on strict Free Trade theories, com- border of Iran, the northern branches of the it is added that recruits raised in Ireland for the mercial treaties are anachronisms. If other mountain chains of the Kubbet Dagg. Allah regular any will not be taken before a magistrate countries choose to try and shui out our produce Akbar, and Murderaj, with the whole valley from appointed under the Town Improvement Act for by prohibitory duties, the injury is theirs rather Kial Arvat to sarakhs, belong to the most fertile attestation. should the medical officer consider than ours, and we do ourselves wrong if we dis regions of ancient Khorassan. These regions that a recruit, who denies former service, has locate our national Custom House regulations in are most favoured as regards climate, while itd served before, the case is to be submited to the order to cajole them into swallowing a small gation has long been known to them. therefore, not difficult to understand why Russia Proving officer before the enlistment is carried taste of that which we believe to be the elixir of

out, and the approving officer will decide if the re- commercial energy, namely, Free Trade. Khorassan, after she had spent so much, blood decision by such proof as the recruit can give. THE following official communication concerning and gold upon barren regions. For appearance With respect to the limit to continuance in service the Jewish outrages was published at St. Peters- sake she uses the form of a treaty in taking the after twenty-one years, it is noted that the Army burg on February 11th "The report of British country from Persia. As regards the political Act necessitates that a soldier who has been tl- interccasion being contemplated in favour of the and strategic side of the question, it hardly needs lowed to continue in the service beyond twenty-- Jews in Russia is so incompatible with the friendly to be remarked, that Russia Inav now become an

one years should give his commanding officer relations existing between the British and Rus- immediate neighbour of Herat. Through her three months' notice of his desire to take his dis-sian Cabinets that it would not be worth con- position near sarakhs, and through the occupa charge. The commanding officer is, however, tradicting but for the fact that such reports tend tion of that masterless country, she will now no authorised to diminish this period if it is to the to add to the tension between the Jews and the mads there voluntarily surrender. This, in fact, soldier forward for discharge at any time if it is the real facts of the case. The Jewish question longer care for Men she will wait till the no- interest of the soldier, and also to bring such a Russian masses. It is therefore useful to state is already partly done, and the completion of the desirable. A month's notice should, unless in is one of those internal matters in which no state work is facilitated for the future, for Russia is exceptional cases, be given to the soldier. All would ever pennit foreign interference or counsel now master of the river system of Merr. Who privates serving at regimental depots are to be in any form whatever. Any infraction of inter ever knows Asia, and especially the Afghans, will brought forward for discharge as soon as they national usages in this respect would be all the certainly not envy the gentlemen of the Liberal have completed eighteen years service towards less admissible on the present occasion, seeing school of England their happy trustfulness. The their engagement. The cause given will be "Pre- that any intercession would create discontent and Afghans acver can or will be friends of England.maturely discharged for the benefit of the public irritation among the masses, and injure the posi If the Gladstone Calinct really hope to see such service, soldiers serving with their corps will tion of the Jews who, as Russian subjects, chjoy selves completely in crror; for, in the first place, one years from the date of enlistment. The sures taken to repress disorder are by no means an impossibility happen, they will find them be discharged when they have completed twenty- the protection of the Government. The nica Abdul Ralinan is not completely Sovereign there; cause given will be "In consequence of the ter- wanting in vigour,, since in the south of Russia and, secondly, proportionately to the Russian mination of his second period of limited engage- 3,675 persons have been arrested, 2,359 of whom approach to Herat, the always dubious sympathy ment," or, in case the soldier, should not have have been' punished. In Warsaw there ve of this former Russian pensioner will decline. completed his engagement, "Prematurely dis- been 3,151 arrests, and legal proceedings pave advance towards Herat, or allow the Cossacks n The intention of the above is to put a stop to thement is seeking the means of definitively axerting Thus England must either prevent the Russian charged for the benefit of the public service." been taken against 2,302 persons. The Govern ce march, 24 Candahar, to the immediate practice of allowing soldiers to remain in the the possibility of any renewal of disorders. The staat any sacrifice, to make her an independent years towards engagement, in order to complete committee specially appointed with that object; neighbourhood of India, To support Afghani service after they have completed twenty-one question is now receiving consideration from a state, and allow Russia's unhindered advance to twenty-one years towards pension; also as under but in order to ensure a satisfactory result it is Herat, is a policy devoid of all logic or reason, the new warrant it is unnecessary for a man to and its vicious consequences hardly admit of complete twenty-one years to pention before he not be envenomed by foreign Influence or false essential before all things that the question should

ness management being placed in the hands of Messrs. Jaxinge, Matheson & Co. as Permanent General Agents, who will be assisted by a Consulting Committee, of which the Hon. F.-B. Jousson is chairman, the other members being Messrs. F. D. SASSOON, W. REINERS, and Jose Muxoz Linjasso. The question which natur- ally suggests itself to one's mind on noting this last-named arrangement, is

rington under Chinese auspices is gradually

the China Sugar Refining Company, Li- approaching completion, and in a fewmited, of which latter concern JARDIN, THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY months at the outside should be in effec. MATHESON & Co. are also General Agents, tive working order. How far the opposi- Possibly the arrangenient may prove AN ANGLO-CHINESE KALENDAR

tion of a purely Chinese undurtaking will beneficial to both companies, but that of Dr. EITEL,

affect already existing interests remains course we are unable to speak upon with inserted in the work by permission of the author. This useful reference is a Christian, Jewish, to be seen, but in any case when consider any air of authority. Mahommedan, Chinese (National), Tauist, Budding the probable future of the sugar re- Under existing circumstances, it is hardly

hist, and Japanese Kalendar.

aining industry in our midst it would be reasonable to hope that the new Luzon THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY unwise to leave the possible results of Sugar Refining Company will prove as powerful native rivalry out of our calcula-successful as the other companies floated Messrs. MAC EWEN, FRICKEL & Co., tions. The still more extensive establish-by Messrs: JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

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the future Sugar Refining prospects of this can projudicially affect existing Sugar district. The firm just named have of late Refining interests to the extent generally. THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY years become the natural rivals of the believed, and indicated by the difference East Point magnates in nearly all branches in the market value of Sugar Stock at of commerce on the coast of China, and it present as compared with the quotations may safely be predicted that in Sugar before opposition was talked about. The THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY Refining as in all other branches of trade properties, and prospects, of the Manila the opposition will be too powerful to be project may be everything that the pro

spectus-asserts, but it-cannot-be-denicd| And yet in the face of these well-known that the amounts set down to be paid facts, with new rivals to the old-established to the present proprietors appear to refineries almost ready for work, Messrs. be of somewhat gigantic proportions. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. have sufficient. Intending shareholders would of course faith in the stability and remunerative cha-satisfy any doubts they might have on racter of sugar refining that they have these points before applying for shares, ever being remedied."

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