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A. S, WATSON & CO., LTD.

HAVE JUST RÉCEIVED A FURTHER SUPPLY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1818.

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if the management of the China Sugar but that they will do so. at an expenditure THE British gunboat Merlin, Licut, Commander Refinery is taken from JARDINE'S,. other of a quarter of a million of dollars out of W. H. Maturin, arrived this morning from | valuable agencies which they monopolise mere pique appears incredible. When

are very likely to quickly follow suit. Mr. the Hon. W. Keswick, head of JARDINE'S to count the $158,575.545. 83 in the New York A NEW YORK papers says it took just one month StuLasher-Jouneon is dead, Me, Watling-in-China, was Chairman of the China Sub-Freantry. Keswick is in London; but surely there Sugar Refining Co,, he publicly declared is some one in this grand old house with some three years ago that there was not sense enough to recognise the march room in Hongkong for three opposing

duminution of twenty, ay even ten years ago has departed, never to return? If not, so much the worse for the princely

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refineries; his view was undoubtedly a correct one, and It holds good to this day. Of course any threat of opposition would be regarded by the shareholders with the contempt it deserves; but improbable as it may be, opposition is a factor that should not be entirely left out of consideration in dealing with the whole" question. And now we can sum up the case in a few words. If JARDINE's will only be reasonable, they are entitled to have every consideration shown them; if they prove offensively obstructive, as was the case last October, then it is for Mr. BELILIOS and his supporters to conserve. their own interests in the way they think est.. But it will be a pity for all concerned if the present, shareholders of the China Sugar Refinery and JARDINE, MATHESON

& Co. fail to come to terms.

THz London Academy declares that it is in France that the keenest love for poetry now manifests itself.

Don Juan Irisarri has been elected Chairman of Frost Manila papers wo gather that General

Weyler the new Governor-General of the Philin pine Islands, was expected at the expital on the

cho Naval Commander Enief, D. Fedric has, through illness, transferred his charge to 6th inst. General Mold, he Acting Govern

the Spanish-Filipino Bank of Manila. THE Manila Diario reports an extensiv resulting in the destruction of from 250 to go conflagration on the 10th ulte at Antipol

No lives were lost.

THIS morning Mr. Sercombe-Smith gave a land pirate six months' hard labour for stealing a cruct stand from the dining room of Mr. Leonarde Noronha. The prisoner had been convicted of in connexion with a jacket lifting case. three previous occasions, and was also wanted

THE following were the proceeds of the benefit performance recently given by the Italian Opera Company in Manila, Signora Balzofiore, 2990,751 Signor Pozzi, $879 75; Signor Balzofiore Knube, 370.50; Signor Falcisi, $620.251 $868.74; Signorina Piretti, $802.25; Signoria Signor Casati, $535

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TIERE must surely be omething wrong with Marine Court, Singapore, nii the 31st ulto, two Uto descendants of Vasc de Gama. At the g Portuguese sailors were sentenced to three. months imprisonment for desertion from the British ship Emilie L. Boyd. What explanation" has out Macao contemporary, the Voz de Crente priestly infintence? We wait for a reply. to offer for this extraordinary departure from:

MESSES. Adamson, Bell & Co. inform us thai the steamship Zenvor, from London, &e, left Singapore yesterday for this port. On the 3rd inst., twenty-five years ago, the city of Manila was completely destroyed by an earth- quake, one of the most disastrous which has occurred during this century," ACCORDING to the latest news received in Manila from the Caroline Islands, affaits th Panapé were progressing favourably, and the state of heakh of the Spanish colony was very satisfactory, A DEAF mute, living in Silesia, is reported to have larynx if it be possible to transfer it to the written to Dr Mackenzie offering to sacrifice his

German Emperor's throat. Dr. Mackenzie replied to the man that the loss of his life would neither-Smith had only been borrowed as a matter of con- help the Emperor nor benefit science,

venience, that Hawsen was the baptismal naine, but that defendant had a somewhat delicate.objec THE Spanish mail steamer Reina Mercedes, tion to seeing it in the newspapers which he General of the Philippine Islands, arrived at having on board General Weyler, Captain informed his worship he read at the City Hall and other places. Had been in gaol in Hongkong Singapore on the night of the 31st May and left before owing to force, of circunstances, nobody for Manila the following afternoon.. The Bishop Appeared to want his services; had applied for "of Cebu was on board.

a"watchman's billet "and could "run errands": was agreeable to enter into such a contract for he thought about $15 per month; reckoned he hard-labour at cracking stones-on-holystoning couldlive on that. Henry was sent in fora month's decks, till a nice comfortable bertit turned up.. THERE is another impertinent and senseless attack on the Superintendent of the Government Fire Brigade in "last night's China Mail. It is Two Chinamen were charged this morning by in the form of an anonymons letter, and has Inspector Baker with keeping a Tsa-fa lottery. every appearance of having been concocted and shop at 122, Hollywood Road, on the 7th inst written in the China Afaitoffice. The anonymous The men dented the charge, whereupon, Mr. Scribbler, whoever he may be, is mean hound-Teoi-Kwok-stepped into the witness box and who deserves to be tittred and feathered; made the following statement I am an informe and lic Editor who allowed such a cur to who have known the house and the occupant prostitute the columns of a public journal with for some time. The two defendants are engage base insinuations against an official, who, what in the Fafa lottery business to my certain know ever his business capacity, is at least a gentle Tedge. On the evening of the 7th inst. I went man and an honorable man, is too low for tar into the house and on the 1st fluor commenced and feathers he would foil even that vile cóm the game; I staked ten cents on it and lost, I

We trust that the dissenting share holders will lay their views and proposals before JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. with that Famount of consideration and respect which the firm's high position and their past valuable services to the Sugar Refinery demand. And we also hope that the 'General Agents, profiting by experience, | will not repeat their reprehensible and short-sighted folly of last October. The question at issue, after all, should not be a very serious one.. Requests of this kind are not uncommon where limited liability For the sake of argument it will perhaps umpunics are managed by general agents; therefore there is nothing that can be better to accept as us fait accompli be construed as offensive in this particular

Before concluding, there is one little IT is said that up to his last hours the late that the immediate future of the China instance. If JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. matter to which we consider it advisable frequently tried to express himself jousely, as Emperor William, conversed freely, and, even Sugar Refining Company-is-in-the-

„find themselves unable to see their way to specialy direct attention. Owing to of old. When, for example, he was asked if a hands of the influential. Syndicate directed to accede to the wishes of the dis the movement of the Syndicate in appros of champagne was to his liking, he replied. by Mr. E. R.. BELILIOS. No amount sentient shareholders, they ought to have priating all available shares to enable it has tasted better,"

Well, yes, but, there have been times. when of bounce or bravado, nor any childish

no difficulty in practically demonstrating them to hold the upper hand, the market and ignorant cackle about "black-

to these gentlemen the unreasonable quotation for this stock has risen to a and-tans" and healhien Chinese, can character of their demands. Smart writing point or two over $160 per share, Tomove the thoroughly established fact that

and literary fire-works-had better-be This quotation is absurd, and has no more than two thirds of the Company's voted in any reply that may be made practical justification. The business of shares are at the present moment on paper; that sort of thing failed igno- the Company may possibly permit an controlled by the "BELILIOS Syndicate.minously both at the China Sugar and interim dividend of 3 per cent., altho' in And such, being the case, we are placed in Dock Company's meetings, as business men all probability the profits may not justify a position from which we can thoroughly and investors generally desire information any such return. But even allowing for deal with the whole of the questions at unliampered by a meaningless diarrhoea-the-most-sanguine-anticipations,-figures--anything-in-any-to-the jury, artlessly replied,is undoubtedly-open-to-hostile criticism when issue without laying ourselves open to almost invariably associated, in this co one

OR evening contemporary has lately com borrows: front other jouants, Supplied to the menced the practice of hending the telegrams, it "China" Mail,” An imposition equally as bare HENRY HAWSEN, alias George. Smith,

faced as the meming paper's gushing advertise unemployed ship's steward was run-in today an

mentra "our original novel." The missionary. n rogue and vagabond, without visible-means rag is certainly not very particular as to its of subsistence. the rogue it came out that, the good old naine of in the "Gribble-Bulgin" days. I managed to In an interesting dialogue journalistic methods, and seems to be rapidly which took place between the magistrate drifting back to the muddy practices so common get smartly caught the other day, in a snug. faced piece of piracy from the Japan

Mail, This is how our Yokohama contemporary gently rubs down the lower Wyndham Street print

In the Tiji Shimpo we find some interesting statistics with regard to legal affairs in 1887 says the China fail of the 7th instant. Then follows the greater portion of an original article taken from these columns a commentary.on statistics which we translated from the 7 Shimpo. If this were an isolated instance of

point out that the Hongkong paper did not "find" the kind, it would not be worth noticing, but, as it.is.a common occurrence, it may be as well to

the reason that it never appeared there." the article referred to in the Jiji Shimpu, for

those miserable insinuations which are

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RRAI: merit is not in the success but the endeavour, and, however, inconsiderable that merit should be, it ought not to go unrewarded, We regret to note that on May goth, Mr. Charles Ferdinand Keun, who had reached, the ripe age of 70 years and had been for 35 years chief clerk of the Oriental Bank Corporation, died hi Gaylang (near Singapore) on May 10th, Ar the recent Bathurst quaster-sessions a 'man and being asked by Jude Docker if he had "No, yer Wasshup, I ain't much of a speaker, but I'd he much obliged if you'd say somethin' to them for me." Eventually his Honor said he would make it-three-years-and-M-Green's belief in the efficacy of the learned Judge's degrees below zero,

named Green was ch rged with horse-stealing.

position. The Superintendent of the Fire Brigade he deserves it, but he certainly should not be publicly subjected to coarse imputations, which on the face of them ste groundless, fisin au assailant who lacks the spirit and decency to append his name to his attack.

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produce tickets. The two defendants will others were in the same house as myself the 1st was waiting Howl stairs and the and on the first floor collecting the money. At nine o'clock this morning on visiting the house. I found the first defendant writing tickets which I niso produce. The first defendant, in answer to the Court denied the charge and the and admitted that an

after rice, he went to the premises of the neigh not by himself;by a neighbour. This morning bour and while there was arrested he ha no witnesses to support his statement. ME Sercombe-Smith fined the two accused cach $30 or six weeks hard labour

In our article of yesterday we fully reasonable explanation or proposal that Should the General Agents accede to the cloquence immédiately dropped to about 459 SOON after Victorin had elected her' finst pulia- | agency was being carried on in the house but

of empty words. But we are perfectly indicate plainly enough that the actual certain that the promoters of the present value of the stock does not exceed movement are men who will-readily agree 8135 per share... We are, of course, to give the fullest consideration to any writing of investments, not speculations, the General Agents may think proper to petition of the shareholders and agree to a_reduction of their commissions and Charges, does anyone in his right senses imagine that such concession Vill anfount to a thirty per cent, increase of net profits? If so, we are glad that Governor nas Veux has lately sanctioned the immediate construction of a spacious asylum for

with the independent actions of public men.

explained what had already transpired in connection with this business; and if we didke, not sufficiently express. If then, we' wish to particularly emphasise it now that the greater part, if not the whole of the existing trouble is owing to the incomprehensible obstinacy of the General Agents in so blindly

ignoring their obligations to the share.

holders. Fifty thousand.apologies and ten

Now, in the event of JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. perpetuating their idiotic policy of October last and arrogantly declining to listen to reason-what will be the result? That the present General Agents will be relieved of their responsibilities may be

the other hand, if JARDINE, MATHESON Co-as is quite possible--should refuse to come to terms-ought that to keep

CHIARINI, the Zanopi of the present century, in contesting a Southern agricultural constituency, ment two candidates of equal popularity were reported to be doing first clar business-in--The result of the contest was-so-uncertain that Singapore. The "show" is said to be by far each would have done anything to win a doubtful the best ever seen in the Far East, and Chiarini's vole. Both canvassed the electorate on foot, personal performances, with his magnificent stud and one morning a well-to-do Irish farmer, while of trained horses, would suggest the palmy days milking his cows, found himself stuck up by one Singapore in the presentout 1850, rather than of the candidates. The politician, to show MESSRS. WHEELOCK & Cole Shanghai Freight Singapore in the present year of grace. The what a really good fellow he was, volunteered his Report of June fat has the following:- Hongkong public will be glad to see this genius services and finished seven or eight cows, after

Our last report was issued pithe 180 instant j which the farmer offered him whisky. Then the in their midat again.

since then we have had another quiet fortnight, candidate for the first time broached politics.scarcely a noticeable paint to remark upon

Dess. The ofte some quer dog stories in the papers. officer shot the because he was. suspiciously fat. The post-mortem examinatión revealed the fact that the dog wore a leather fully fastened at the shoulder and haunches in such a way as to completely conceal the enda of the air. In this cost the dog carried several

"tinies that number of explanations cannot tregerdedase certainty-and what then? it lunatics, for that establishment will very i THR shooting of a big dog bý a Franch Custom. The farmer was asked which would make the beyond the continued dulness of the shipping. do away with the damning fact that Messrs, is no use disguising the fact that a serious quickly have plenty tents, And on house officer in the north of France the other day, better representative. Well, you are both folno trade at this port. The ship Clan Robertson JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, have arrogated to themselves absolute rights to treat with contempt and ignominy the just and interests were protected by legal statutes, which even JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.-as, become owners of the Steamboat Co.

was proved when they tried so hard to

follows. What I have you seen anything of sailed yesterday for Iloilo hide hor kertson Mac?" Bedad, I have he came here The German steamer Tetarios, 1,578 tops an hour before you, and he's away now over in register, which proceeded to Hankow under the paddock beyant digging, spuds and fading home charters to fond for Odessa, had to return. I vote for him. But if you will milk me cows port after stipulated date. Her charter was every mornin, for a week I'll form a better cancelled and the has since sailed for Saigon. opinion of your political capacity and give t vote accordingly." He did not remain, and lost the sent by one voth.

equitable contcations of shareholders whose establish autocratic East Point rule in the value of the shares at 60 per cent. coat made to look like his own skin, and ski the pigs. He says he will stop there a week if to. Woosung in ballast, having arrived at loading

cannot over-ride.'

hundred cigars.

difficulty springs up here. J. M. & Co.are no doubt a little lower than the angels, and they have failed in their many attempts to Hungkung; but they are nevertheless a remium). We fail, to see it. In course great power inthe land and their influence of time the economy of management

is no other commercial house in the colony General Agents will practically mean the the sum of $100. Complainant, on getting into cannot be safely disregarded. There may amount to a considerable item, but

at first the retirement of the present charged by Mr. James Stephen with embezzling No Tso, aged 15, appeared to-day, on remand, that could safely undertake to profitably coriduct the business of the China Sugar loss of the Company's business. That is to withdeaw the choir the magistrate he wished

a risk that doubtless has been foreseen offered to make the money good. Mr. Sercombe

to withdraw the charge as the boy's friends had Refining Company-excepting, of course,

and provided for by Mr. BALILIOS and his Smith said he thought it was the best thing Messrs. BUTTERFIELD and SWIRE," and we imagine that at the present time the great supporters, and we only mention it in order complainant could do, nsit was rather a doubtful case, and he was quite agreeable to let the Pajandrum of the Taikoo hong has that investors in localstocks may accurately matter drop. It is said the Police were in

other fish to fry. But there is still the realise what an uncertain investment China position to prove that the Chinamen who alternative of managing the concern by a Sugars are until existing difficulties have robbed " the boy were the frequenters of a

been satisfactorily adjusted. Board of Directors and a competent Secretary. This idea may be ridiculed by superficial persons who know, no better; hut, although we see elements of danger in advance, it has a good deal to recommend

The first question to be seriously debated is Whether Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. will agree to consider the proposals of the dissenting shareholdersi There is a good deal more in this than piight at first strikethe superficial observer It would be the height of folly to deny that #the princely house", has not made a good thing out of the China Sugar Refinery; but it would be equally foolish not to admit that, as a quid pro quo, the special and exclusive advantages possessed by the leading commercial firm in the Farit. th our humble opinion-whatever it East have been assiduously applied for the benefit of the Company and its shareholders. We might even go so far as to say that the wonderful success achieved for the past ten years has been mainly due to the efforts and influence of JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Still, with all this, it inust be recognised that times have altered, and that business management to-day is quite a different thing to what it was in 1878 Candidly and honestly we think that the General Agents ought to seriously ponder over the proposals that will be submitted to them by the BALILIOS syndicato; courtesy is a most inexpensive commodity, and if the demands are not reasonable they can easily be rejected. Had JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. recognised this homely trulsm in October last, they would have fewer enemies

may be worth-the fat old times of general agencies have about run their course in Hongkong; within the next few years they will be as extinct as the dodo. Perhaps, as regards the China Sugar Refining Co., the time for such a change has not yet come, but nevertheless it is inevitable. The cost of management of the Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Company under the general agency of Messrs. AUGUSTINE HEAD & Co. annually averaged about $50,000; managed by a Board of Directors-who have generally been, with a few exceptions, incompetent idiots--and a Secretary, the total charges have amounted to something under $1,000 per annum. The tremendous difference between these two amounts is both suggestive and encouraging, till, it must

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)

gambling house.

We have to acknowledge receipt from the office of the Japan Mail of a capitally printed and well written report, in pamphlet form, of the Spring Meeting of the Nippon Race Club. In looking through the events we note that Mr. Easton, a jockey who won his spure" in Hongkong in 1881, greatly distinguished bim

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boberek, the Government Astronomer, named We are in receipt of a linte pamphlet by Dr.

Telegraphic determination of the Longitude of Monsieur La Porte, who is at the bead of the Haiphong." From observations made by Hydrographic service of Tonquin, and two other gentlemen in Hongkong, the following mean results bave been, obtained in connection with this subject

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F. and Da P. and F. 1887, April 5...29 57′977 29 57′953 39 57'965

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From Hankow for London via Suez Canal When last writing the Mutual Co's steamer Afoyune was reported by telegram to be engaged full at £3 per ton, but owing to the low rate

Progtethers she had to drop to 3; these three of 30s. being accepted by the Glengyle and steamers have sailed in the order named. The liner Benvenue, the Shire steamer Glamorgan Ningchowe sailed yesterday morning. The "Ben" skire, and Holt's Autenor are on the berth loading. the unprecedentedly low rate of the ind Sterling per ton. The Mayans had a'cargo 4.000 tons at 2, the Giengyle 5,300 at 30/-, and the Promethens 3750 at 30). The Ningchow lefe Hankow on May 31st

at

For New York via the Cape -The American 715 ship Wandering Jew, 1,650 tons register, has 778been taken up and placed on the berth at gas. 6d. per ton and will call at Hongkong to fill up. The Mean..29 57 792, 39 57 847 29 $7819 American ship C. C. Chapman (to arrive) is Dr. Doberck concludes:-The longitude also advenised. Observatory is, according to observations made 21 Mex, cents per picul, steam, no enquiry of the transit instrument in the Hongkong

Quotations are Newchwang to Swalow,

THE DEFENCES.

LONDON, June 6th..

style, three of them, The House of Cominons has passed by a large majority, a vote of $2,500,000 for the from one of the Shanghal stables. The ones meridian of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Stakes, on his own pony Entoutcas, a cast-off and Wladivostock-7h 37m 415.86 east of the defence of coaling stations.

Invincible half-miler Dandolo casily won the therefore the longitude of the transit lastrament Hack Stakes (Mr. Easton up), carrying fist. in Haiphong is :- that he had talb. over his weight for inches in 7lb., in 624 seconds-very good time considering the saddle.

four races in capital in 1881 by Lieut-Commander Green, U.S.N.,. just now Chefeo to Swalow, 16 Mex,

self in the saddle, including the Champlon who, connected Hengkong with both Madras cenis per picul, mall demand Nagasaki, to

THE NEW WINE DUTIES The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that he will confine the vine duties to sparkling wines.

(From Straits Timer.)

↑ LONDON, May 30th. Count Kalnoky has given assurances to Monsieur Decrais which, it is hoped, will satisfy France..

FRANCE AND GERMANY,

BERLIN, May 30th. New Frontier measures are intended not so much The Nerd Deutsche Gazelle states that the as reprisals, as for the sonsolidation of the re-acquisition of Alsace, which has hitherto been retarded by French preparations for the revanchaj thal as pearly

ears of German moderation has falled to lessen

if France Intercourse between the countries; retaliates by keeping out Germans from visiting France, such a course will not be regretted, as dangerous frictions may thus be avoided.

twenty

demand; 31.20 ex ship, for sailing vessels, for Shanghai, St 50 per ton of foal nett, for steamers.

Settlements during the fortnight-have been se Arma Bertha, German barque, 469 tons register, bence to Tientsin, $2,300 in full, so lay daysı Kobe to Singapore, $3 per ton Coal, despatch; Delcamyn British steamer, 1,184 tons register, Wandering Jew, American ship, 1,650 tons register, Shanghai and Hongkong for New Yor private terms: Altair, British barque, 400 tons register, Tientsin to Hongkong, 3,000 in full, 20 Iny days; Tetaries, German steamer, 1,578, tons, Saigon to Hongkong, 18 centi perpicul, despatch.

· Disengaged vessels in Port:-City of Philadel phim American ship, 1,384 tons register. Ridrion, British barque, 307 tons register.

CORRESPONDENCE

Va de nas bearly endorse the opinions expressed. ↑ Correspondența la this column.i

THE DOCK COMPANY,

and opponents in Hongkong to day; but not be forgotten that the management of French hatred, it is now desirable to restrict Bess would convert Satan. (if he be not already searching for bplum. 1 had no prepared opiumad Whampoa Dock Company borrowed from

From the Avenir du Tonkin.)

FRENCH INDO-CHINA

SANA PARIS, May 31st.

One) into

Liberal-Unionist

To the Editor or the “Hongkong Talegramı,"a Sta, 1notice by the London and Chise Express of April 7th, 1888, that the Hongkong

20, on giving as security a mortgage on the the British Government, in 1885, the sum of

THE alleged malicious prosecution by a native 7h 6m 443.04 cast of Greenwich,

Excise Officer again came before Mr. Sercombe THERE can be no doubt, says Mr. Labouchere Smith this morning, in which Tuk Cheong in Truth, that the Pope's decision In the Irish was charged with wilfully making a falte business is the result of an intrigue. The Duke. statement, on oath, whereby the premises of Mr. of Norfolk was sent to Rome to congratulate the Chung Sin of the Tai Yun shop, 97, Qucca's Pope on his Jubilee. He used the fact of his Road East, was entered and searched on the official position to urge on his Holiness active 29th ult. Mr. Dennys, appeated for the prosecu interference in behalf of Balfourism in Ireland. tion and Mr. Wotton for the defence. The There were times when the Tory party would complainant in his examination by Mr. never, have dreamed of humbly imploring the Dennys said I am a Government Contractor Pope to come to their aid in their dealings with and master of the Tai Yün Shop at 97, their endeavors to secure themselves in office. my father died about two years ago and left me portion of the subjects of the realm and in Queen's Road East. I was born in Hongkong: So anxious are the Tories to defeat the policy of house property in Hongkong amounting to about Gladstone, and to hinder him from ever

ing sixty odd houses, worth, I should say, from again Prime Minister, that they would not only $110,000 to $120,000. On the 29th ult. 1-was

r being go to Rome for allies, but to the nether world if in my shop between five and six in the evening they thought their appeal to the Prince of Dark when I was visited by ten people, who entered by virtue of warrant and began my premlacs

THE agitation against the further influx of 1st floor above my brother resides in. company in my shop, on the ground floor. On the Chinese immigrants Into Australia might not with my mother and his family. Two men materially affect Hongkong interests, to Judge searched my premises and two went upstairs property by the apparent apathy of local emigration into my brother's apartments for the same

If this Joan not somewhat differently accounted agents and shippers, A trade which involves purpose, On my premises nothing was found and for by the Directors of the Dock Co. In their the transportation of at least six or seven thou knew nothing about the defendants. By Mr. reports to the shareholders, and made to bear sand Chinese annually, at a cost of over 4 Wotton-1 cannot say that the defendant quite another defighion 72 quarter of a million dollars, is suddenly stopped, has a will against me. My father, used to and yet nos that all the combined interests involved are smoker of the drug-but-1-never-ule it osign is made. The reason is probably smoke opium and my brother, is an habitual powerless to do any good here. The battle will When they came I dont think there was docked at Singapore in preference to Hongk have to be fought out in Australia. Until the worth in the house, it belonged to my brother question as to the admission of migrants has not to me. The whole house belongs to me, been decided no more will go from this port but I only occupy the'g and floor as my shop The Tangadice, which was the last steamer le I believe what opiuth was found was placed there leave, took none. But the effect of this stoppage by somebody; I know a. Some was found of a lucrative passenger traffic will. con ba felt in a bed room me the hits that Tiany more. Any information you can give the sha by shippers, The passage money of the: bun- | 'what the total weig

muy on the above queries, wurde parte The female apart dreds of Chinese har been a very large item in ments were searched, but I only complain about to them just now? the returns of the competing companies, and the searching of my own premises. I have freight rates have been low and cargo a scarce sustained no folury, but that of. commodity. Already, Messrs: Gibb, Livingston disgrace to my reputation, and the can Why 1:

Co have raised the freight 5/- per ton, and if have come here is to the traffic is prohibited, the tariff will rise, my character, another 10/-. The Agents of the Ching Nasign, from the Optum tion Co (Messrs. Butterfield and Swire do not Mr.

Ay that this will recessarily, follow, but they marc walling eventuali

the China Sugar Refining Co. is not quite on all fours with running four or five steamboats on the Canton River; in fact, the difference is so vast that It should not be overlooked by the members of the Sugar Syndicate who are building up high hopes on this comparison, That The Minister of Marine and the Colonies the business of the China Sugar Refinery finials notwithstanding M. Const Open, on-the suppression of the general Budget for could be economically and efficiently Indo-China conducted by a Board of Directors and Secretary is not impossible? but at the same it presents some difficulties which will not easily be overcome,

Brownie's" assistant was allowed to have his way, and here is the result.

No firm to China can manage the affairs of the China Sugar Refining Co. so well as JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. That had better be accepted as a fact, even with Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIEZAS an opposing factor. But, as is the case with the Sovereign of Great Britain, the directors of this indus, trial enterprise must recognise that they are not omnipotent; we are not now living in the year of Grace 1843, by kind permission of RonERT JARDINE, Esq. The emoluments of the China Sugar, Refinery, We have heard it asserted that if JARDINE, form one of the princely house's most MATHESON & Co, are ousted from the lucrative possessions; what the business General Agency of the Sugar yields annually, directly and Indirectly, Refinery, they will have an opposition nobody outside the magic cirale can even, running at East Point within six months. pretendtoknow, that it is one of the greatest | The wealth of this old

of this old established firm supports in keeping the old established cannot be controverted, their influence in Grm in the front ran Far Easte The Far

ar East is accepted generally, commerce is as certain as anything can be. | article of faith that they could quickly And⋅

that I anopposition sugar refinery is likely

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE first eclipse of up record was a louer one, and was observed at Babylon 711 B.C.

THE Austro-Hungarian frigate Ferana, Capt, E. von Wohlgemulb, arrived yesterday from Batavia.

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“Yours faithfully,

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