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1. Horskong Telegraph

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGU

THE sum of $1.007.200 has been voted by the Manila Government to defray the expenses of the Public Works during next year. The returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending August 5th, are: -Europeans 130, Chinese 2,029;, total, 2,159, “BROWNIE" in his usual dose of stale hash-up. in Saturday's China Maif. r once speaks the truth He frankly admits that he is "a dunder

bend."

A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 10th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

We are indebted to the Agents of the North German Lloyd's (Messrs. Melchers & Co.) for čopics of the leading London dailies of July 9th received by the Mail steamer Bayern. They reached us, however, too late to be utilised for this issue.

WOMAN (to tramp)-Now that you have been given a good breakfast, can't you do something to pay, for it? Tramp-Madam, you shouldn't say "you have been given a good breakfast" You didn't give me to any breakfast. You gave he breakfast to me. That is a bit of thetorical

nformation that is cheap at a week's board,

Tiny Band of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment will play at the Officers? Mesa, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. The following will be the progrimine:-

Match

Blery Monarch". verline Le Parleme" Vals Die Botschafter" Aria..

Scales

Herman.

"Lancia di Lammermoor"......Donizetti. Selection.....14 Sounambula",

....... Bellini. Selection......" Erminie **

.......Jakobomaki.

John Moran, Bandmaster.

MESSRS. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Patroclus, from Liverpool, lett Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and may be expected on the 12th inst, THE Comercio says, that the steamer, Zafiro, which arrived at Manila on the gist ulto, with a. clean bill of health dated Hongkong the 27th, was placed on a ten days' quarantine at Mariveles, although it was known that since the 14th July no fatal case of contagious cholera had occurred in this colony.

OUR evening and morning contemporaries have lately-been exchanging those linle pleasantries which make journalism so piquant and enjoyable during the dog days. The Fish Wrapper had the latest innings, and took advantage of the occasion to elegantly remark that the Morning Granny has a way of going at a question like a bull at a gate. There must be a lot of satire in this if one only could find where it is. We have been expecting the morning sheet to retaliate by accusing its critic of going for every- thing he touches like a donkey at a thistle. THE first professorial examinations in connection

A BERLIN merchant who advertised for a wife lately received 277 answers. Of these 87 were from widows varying in age from 25 to 52; 42 of them had no children, and 21 possessed fortunes entirely under their own control of from $500 to $20,000. Four ladies who had been separated

from their husbands also wrote to express a desire to try their luck at marriage for a second time-one of them for a third time. Of the remaining 186 only two gave their age as over 30; eighteen of them professed to be just turned 16. Seventy-one photographs were inclosed, and thirty-one of them are said to represent remarkably pretty girls.

By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that both the Shanghai-Nagasaki cables are interrupted. Until the necessary repairs have been carried out messages for Japan can be forwarded wit. Djoulfa at $4.10; via London at $4,30, and vừa Corea at $1.86 per word. "

SUPREME COURT..

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. Justice Leach)

7, 1888.

THE GOVERNOR OF MACAO AND

***THE LOYAL SENATE,

FROM the 1st January to the 8th inst. 6,050,435 piculs of rice were 'exported from Saigon, as against 5,674,613 picuis exported during the

The news sent by our Macao corespondent same period in 1887. Of the above quantity ander date the 5th inst. and published in our 101,426. piculs were imported into the Philippinesssue of yesterday clearly points a inem, and from January to March of this year.

that is the utter insecurity and instability of municipal institutions when their liberties and their privileges are cramped by a despotic and irresponsible Government., Macao has for years been administered by a succession of mice whose ignorance of administrative matters bas invariably been in direct proportion to their pretentiousness *The armiy and to their despotic tendencies. officer who by the influence of Iriends or by some of the sudden political changes which often occur in Lisbon, has been pitchforked into the position of Governor of Macho, Rods himself at the head of half a dozen different departments of the public service, for which he has not in any way been previously qualified. Without having passed through administrative curri culum, without possessing the slightest know. ledge of legal matters, of sanitation, of public works, or of international politics, the Macao Board of Treasury, of the Board of Public Works. Governor is, ipso facto, the president of the

of the Board of Sanitation, of the Board of Justice (practically n Court of Appeal, and of the Board of Education; he is also chief in cominand of the land, forces, and a Minister Plenipotentiary to the Courts et China, Japan and Slam! Imagine for a moment o mannikin elevated to Olympian heights, or a pygmy perched on the Alps! How will he manage to steady himself against the storms and burricanes which often scour those altitudes ? The sad facts are that no Governor has ever been able to adequately fulfil the numerous charges thrown upon him by virtue of his appointment and that conflicts with the departments under his tutelage, with the body of citizens who are independent enough to oppose a barrier to his

DAYER. DEVJER.

delivery of shares, made by Framjee Dayer, This was a claim for $186, damages for non.

merchant, against one Deyjee, another merchant. Mr. Wotton appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stokes for the defendant.

breach of contract:

Mr. Wotton agreed. The first breach was in the gh July, when the shares had gone up to $80, from $48 in January. The difference would thus be $140.

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arbitrariuess whenever he shows an inclination to overstep the boundaries of reason and com- mon-sense, and above all, conflicts with an ever vigilant Municipality have occurred times out of number, the Governor being invariably the first to give provocation as well as the first to fall a

victim to his own rashness.

assist, further than to blow his alarm whistle. Whit may be the stipulated duties of these Indians in such cases 1, don't know, but feel certain that if the soldiers had not come up in the nick of time, the police constable might have been killed: Two of the men had him down, while the third was running about looking for a brick wherewith to batter his head in-só he said-and would possibly have done so if one or two people standing in front of me had not interfered. All this time the Indian constable did nothing more than blow his whistle-did not so much as try to stop the cowardly scoundrel from finding a brick, or attempting to use it afterwards. My object in troubling you with this letter is to bring this useless man's conduct to the notice of his superiors, for assuredly if he could not, or would not act in such a cose, with so many bystanders about, he would be worse than uselessunder more dangerous circumstances.

Yours faithfully,

CITIZEN,

Hongkong, August 7th, 1888.

FIFTY YEARS OF THE INDIAN TEA TRADE

II.

Coming now to the area of the tea plantations in India, their prediction and qualities, we find that the provinces in which ten is grown nie Assam, Bengal, the North-west provinces, the Punjab, Madras and Burmah. The figures for 1884-85-in Assam were 189,851 neres planted with rea, and a production of $1.125,109 pounds; in Bengal 55,608 acres and 1,740 pounds; the. North-west provinces 8,417 acres and 1,242,350. pounds; Punjab 6,174 acres and 1,311,002 pounds; in Madras 5.551 acres and 503,850 pounds; and in Burmalt 159 acres and. 16,553 pounds.

Thus for all India. we prb an

acres, with a production of 67,947,946 pounds; area under cultivation in 1884-85 of 267.710 at the end of 1885 this amounted to 65,730,219 pounds, and at the end of 1886 10 76,585,000 pounds. To give an idea of the growth of the industry in India the following figures are in- suctive-Number of plantations, 1875, 1.7475 1878, 2,330; 1882, 3:407; nrea under cultivation, 1875, 124,8-6 acres 1878, 199,132 ; · 1882, 248,237 1886, 275,000; area occupied, but not yet planted, 1875, 473,801; 1878, 465,194: 1852, 660,204: production 1875, 26,526,317 1878 38,665,112 1882, 60,010,273; 1886, 76,585.000 pounds; average yield per acre, 1875, 229; 1878, 260; 1882, z89 pounds. Into the characteristics of the teas of the different Indian districts it is unnecessary to enter; nor need more reference be made to Herr Feis mantel's chapter on the chemical analyses of the different China and Indian teas. The author argues at some length that while Chinese teas are notoriously adulicrated before leaving Chins; Judian teas, if adulterated at all, undergo the process in England, not in India. In the latter country, he says positively, the tea is not, and under the present system of garden administra- tion, cannot be adulterated before being put on shipboard,

Tus New York Maritime Registir says that

Mr. Wotton stated that, on the 6th January the dangers from employing color blind people

Mr. Apcar, a broker, who was employed by the on shipboard ought to impress themselves most

defendant, called on the plaintiff and offered with the local Chinese ·College of Medicine pie

him some Rope Co.'s shares. Plaintiff agreed forcibly upon the public at this season when so

now in progress. The wrinen examinations 10 lake 25 at $48, and Apcar reported the tran- many people are indulging in the pleasure and extend over three days and embrace the follow.saction to the defendant. Next day plaintiff also the perils of boating and yachting,

ing subjects:-botany, chemistry, elementary called on defendant to receive the shares, and defendant gave him an under an Mr. Mady for Prekorn, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1998. THE following reventie of the chief Customs anatomy, clementary physiology. Materia them. Mr. Mody told plaintiff that he had already Stations in the Philippines, during the month of Afedica, physical and clinical observations. The sold them, and he therefore again applied to de- The Hos. P. BRIE. Chairman of the June this year, is culled from Manila papersaviva voce examinations, which are open to the fendant, who gave him an order on the Hongkong Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat-Manila, $191.145.51; linilo, $62,871.07 public, will be held in the City Hall on Friday and Shanghai Bank, for 20 shares, saying that he later. The 20 were paid and handed Company, in addressing the shareholders Cebi, $3,881.29; Zamboanga, $50.25. Total, next, the oth inst., at 7.30 p.m. Thirteen the not 25, but would get live more and deliver over. Repeated application was made for these of that institution at the half-yearly meet-'.$257,048.12, as against $153.482.86 during the students are going through the examinations, a

detailed account of which will be given when five shares, both by the broker and the plaintiff, same period last year. ing held last Friday, referred to the sum

the results are made known.

but defendant put them off. A solicitor's letter was at length sent, demanding the fulfilment of of $5.164.62, the damages and legal costs in connection with the Fotor disaster, as

the contract, and on the gh July, for the first time, the defendant repuliated the transaction, an item which could hardly have heun

adding that he was surprised to receive the The recent dissolution of the Macao Municipal foresten. The worthy Chairman meant

letter." The action was therefore brought, the Chamber by Governor Costa is another illustra- that the insignificance of this amount came.

damages claimed being the duference betweention of these assertions. A Governor with so in the fight of a joyful surprise to the Board

the sale price and the present value of the shares, many departments of the publicservicecentralised His Lordship thought the difference should be in himself will seklem feel disposed to acquiesce between the 6th January and the date of the in measures enacted by such an independent of Directors he fairly hit the mark; but if

institution as a Municipal Chamber may be as appears more probable, he intended to

supposed be. The Senato has always been a thorn in the path at the Governors of Macan. Military despots, destilute of the Mr. Stokes, in outlining his defence, sub-requisite amount of learning and adminis trative experience to appreciate the useful mitted that there never was any contract. The BCSS of Municipal institutions, have ever hroker to sell been sworn encimics to the Senade, which defendant, was asked by a 25. Ropes, and agsted, giving him 'outer on is generally composed of citizens pussess- Mr. Mody for them. Me ody had sold the ing an undeniable amount of independence shares in the mentiune, and the broker went and respectability. Governor Costa's present back and told defendata, who then said "I have conflict with the Municipal Chamber is just the 20 shares; if you like I will give you zo sitares, counterpart of Governor Graça's farcical and will get five more, but if you accept 20 1 attempts at suppressing the press of the colony in will do so." That was aged to the 20 1883, and it will probably end in like manner, The export of Indian tea has grown with the shares were handed over, and the transaction in complete discomfituie for His Excellency, growth of the production. In 1851, fourleen The following are given ns the probable years after the first experimental. Consignment causes of His Excellency's rupture with the

was sent to London-the export was 231,000 Municipality, 1st-When the Senado gave a pounds, in 1862 it was 1,765,000; between 1860 banquet to Minister da Roza on the completion of and 1870 it went up with marvellous rapidity, the Treaty which he had been negoliating in and in 187a it was 16,947,000 lbs, having. Peking, Governor Costa was given the third place increased about a thousand per cent in the of honour at the table, instead of the first, as it ten years. Again between 1870 and 1880 was thought proper that the Minister should take this phenomenal growth continued unbroken, precedence of the Governor, and. The members every year showing millions of pounds more of the Municipal Chamber, for reasons which are sold than the previous year, so that in 1882 recorded in the minutes oflast year's session, did the export was 54,080 300 lbs, or more than not put in an appearance at the official reception three times as much as that of 1872. given by the Governor on King D. Luiz' birthday, it was 76,585,000 lbs. In fact from 1852 to 1887 one of the professors ofthe Senado, to the exclusion enormous increase over its predecessors, Bave in October last, 3rd.When the Governorpraised every year showed a great, sometimes an of the others, the Senada censured the Governor's only 1858, the year of financial disaster. In despatch and requested him to have it altered, 1856 the export was 633,000 lbs., 1857. 920,000, as the other professors who held longer records 1852 703,000, 1859 1,011,000. Of the export of of services rendered to the Municipality and the 86 million pounds in 1887, 634 millions came from Assam, and nearly 15 millions colony had complained of their being left out in the cold. 4th.The Governor having addressed from Darjeeling and the Terai; leaving

the Mr. Wotion objected—the gossip on the Club the Chamber complaining of the bad manage about 8 millions for

other Indlan

denying the soft impeachment, and requesting His Excellency to take the trouble to inspect the locality himself, so as to be able to judge of its actual state. Governor Costa repaired to, the Cemetery, found everything in order, and incontinently wrote to the Chamber expressing his satisfaction with the actual state of things. Despatches were then exchanged between the Chamber and the Governor, producing a certain amount of ill-feeling and animosity between the two. 5th.-The Chamber, having had sufficient reason to complain of Governor Costa's behaviour toward the Corporation, sent a representation to the Colonial Office, explaining matters and demanding prompt redress. This appears to have acted as a fuse to the Governor's well-loaded bomb; for it exploded in the dissolution which is now the subject of general comment in the neighbouring settlement.

convey that the fact of the Company being Benten in Court ‘all mids up' was a cause for astonishment and could hardly have been foreseen, the honourable gentleman failed in display his customary perspicacity. There never could have been the slightest doubt in the mind of any person who hail even the most superficial knowledge' of AW and was acquainted with the facts of the wholesale" slaughter associated with the Fetsar explosion-for which the Directors of the Steamboat Company (or one or more of them) were primarily responsible-as to the ultimato result of the appeal måde to the Supreme Court by two of the victims who luckily escaped death but sustained permanent injuries of a serious character, and if the Directors were otherwise advised, they and the shareholders have good grounds for questioning the bona fides, or efficiency-we won't decide which of their advisers. There cannot be the least doubt that the disaster was caused by criminal negligence of the grassest description, and as the Directors have already been held responsible for the acts of their Secretary

PROFESSOR DEFIY, whose nationality will at once suggest itself, has lately propounded a theory that there is a vein of gold 500 miles wide, running from the middle of the Pacific Ocean tight across the American continent. A con temporary that is an authority on mining and financial matters, suggests that the Professor is Yankee "crank built upon the same scale of magnitude as his gold vein.

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THE members of the Opera Company directed by Messrs. Pemberton Willand and John F. Sheridan repeated Vincent Wallace's "Maritana" at the Theatre Royal last night before a moder- ately large audience. Like the Company's first production of this gem of English opera, the representation was an almost unqualified success, showing the lending artistes in their true colours, Miss Maude Hare achieved a noteworthy success as Maritana, eliciting frequent applause by her excellent singing, and spirited acting. Mr. Miss Eva Leamington is Losarilla sang the contralto music of the part with great effect. Mr. Imane's Don Josd left very little to be desired, and the minor characters were adequately filled by Messrs. W. Cripps and Sutch and Miss 'Flo Morrison,

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was finished.

Plaintiff then gave evidence confirmatory of Mr. Welton's opening

TO-DAY fifteen Asiatic firemen of the British steamer Afghan were charged before the Harbour, Master, Capt. Rumsey, R.N., with refusing duty on board that vessel on the 6th inst. The complainant, Captain Ray, said the men had. simply refused to do any more, duly, which was a great annoyance as his vessel was how

Apear G. Apear, broker, deposed that he had ready for sea, and fully laden. Replying to the

acted for the parties in the east several times. In Magistrate the majority of the men said, they

January the defendant asked him to sell 25-Rope were too weak to do any more work, while some shares for hin, for cash. He therefore sold them complained of the chief engineer striking them.to the plaintiff, and told the defendant, who gave As the defendants had no specific complaint to him an order on Mr. Mody for the scrip. Mr. make, and appeared to be unable to advance Mody said he had none of the shares left, and defendant, on being told, gave him an order on any reasonable excuse for refusing duty, Capt. the Bank for so shares deposited there, and Rumsey sentenced them, to fourteen days in gáo promised to deliver the remaining five later on with hard labour. All the defendants appeared and asked witness to settle the matter with He did not do so, although frequently pressed, to be Indian Mahomedans.

plaintiff. He never repudiated the transaction. His letter denying the transaction was untrue.

For the defence Mr, Young, briker, stated that his firm, Messrs. Stokes and Young, supplied the share quotations to the China Afail. They were based on what he heard.

THE Financial News relates a rather remarkable incident that has occurred in the history of the Shuniah Weachu Mine Company, a Liverpool organisation. The meaning of this name, which

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and Manager, the law is perfectly clear Fisher made an admirable Don Cæsar, whilst looks so like a phonetic rendering of a sneeze, is steps might be accepted by the China Mail, ment of the Cemetery, the Chamber replied districts. The export for the year ended ·

that every surviving passenger, as well as the representatives of those who lost their. lives, has a valid claim for damages against the Company. If the Company's legal advisers are not aware of all this, they have evidently, a great deal to learn.

THE Hamburg-American Steamship-Company of the law; and if they have not

is having two steamships built of 10,000 tons advised their clients to that effect, we each and 12,500 horse power, one at Stettin and venture to think that they ought to have the other at Birkenhend. These steamers are done so. Mr. RYRE was not a member to be ready for service a year hence. They will of the Board of Directors when the cata have a length of 460 feet, and will be 56 feet trophe happened he was first elected at wide and 36 feel deep. Eleven bulkheads will the informal meeting held a 'few weeks divide the vessels into watertight compartments. after the accident, at which the then Chair. Should two even of the largest compartments be flooded the vessel will be safe and navigable. man of the Company tried to illegally The two engines will be in separate compart carry out the most impudent job ever

ments, subdivided by a watertight bulkhead, and associated with the history of public each set of machinery will drive a separate screw. companies In this colony-so that his The steamers will have double bottoms, and will personal responsibility is purely nominal; | be made of as light a draft as po sible to enable but Mr. F. R. BELILIOS, whose conscience them to run up the Elbe as far as Hamburg, and when he thinks of the twenty-six lives to cross Sandy Hook bar at all tides. The bollers sacrificed through combined meanness and will be in three water-tight compartments, cut off neglect is scarcely to be envied, is in quite from each other,

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Silver Mountain. But that has nothing to do with the story. The company was formed eighteen months ago to buy a mining property at Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. The vendors received £30,000 and 25,000 fully paid £1 shares. Of these 23,000 seem to have been commission shares paid for services in floating the company Various persons received small lots, and Messrs, Horsfall Brothers, the company's brokers, were left with 19,435. Of these they sold 6,815, and on the sale and other, transactions connected with these shares they made £14,000. They had will 12,610 shares in their possession. Lord Beaumont, one of the directors, considered that these shares rightfully belonged to the company, and brought an action in the Chancery of the County Palatine to have it declared that Horsfall Brothers were only, trustees, In view of this these gentlemen have handed over the unsold shares and the £14,000 to the company. The offer has been accepted, and the matter ende there. If this is the law, there are numerous promoters of Hongkong companies who occupy an anything but enviable position..

THE China Mail for the past two or three weeks has been publishing a lot of rubbish about the a different pasillon. Some day we may OUR missionary contemporary, after wasting Race-course. According to the sapient noodle find time to write the whole story of theicams of paper and gallons of ink in advocating who 'airs himself' on things general through Pola butchery; the recent report of the the carrying out of the Praya Reclamation by the columns of our contemporary, the repairs Steamboat Company will also shortly and on account of the Government in preference to the racing track necessitated by the con- demand a few remarks; and meanwhile to the marine lot-holders, has now discovered struction of the new Public Park are lo we are contented to add to the foregoing that the philanthropic Praya Extension such a backward state that there is a danger observations: that the only thing the Scheme will, in all likelihood, only further of their not being completed in time for increase the much-to-be-dreaded, congestion " next year's races. All this chatter is sheer Directors could not have foreseen was the of the Chinese quarters of the city, And robsense, and was merely used as a peg an tender mercy of the special jurymen, whose after thus writing himself down a first class which to base an uncalled for attack on the benevolent but inexplicable consideration for the Company's shareholders estimated damages and costs et a trifle over five thousand dollars instead of four times that

amount.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, H.M.S. Satellite, Captain T. P. W. Nesham, arrived from Chemulpo yesterday. THE steamers Saigon and Ashington, which arrived at Manila on the ist inst., had to undergo ten days' quarantine at Mariveles.

but it was not evidence. The objection was over-ruled.

Defendant was then called. He said he was

a general merchant and had dealt in shares for fifteen years. On the 7th January Mr. Apcar asked him for an order, and he authorised bim to sell 25 Ropes, giving him a nole to Mr. Mody for them. He came back saying Mr. Mody had sold them, and he there fore agreed to sell twenty others which he had at the Hank. This Mr. Apcar agreed to, although if he had insisted defendant would have supplied the additional five, having 150 more in his possession. He swore, with uplifted hands and spread fingers, that Apcar had never asked him for the five shares, and that the first he heard of it was six months afterwards.

By Mr. Wotton-I am a share-jobber. On the 7th January I had 410 Ropes in the Bank, $6,100 to my account.. and other shares worth about $26,000, besides

Mr. Thomsett, of the Hongkong and Shanghai' Bank, stated that on the 7th January the defen- dant had 170 shares in the Bank, before he took

out the 20.

In conclusion Mr. Stokes urged that the claim was only brought when, after a lapse of half-a- year, there had been an enormous rise in the market-value of the shares. Ifit were admitted, no one in the colony would be safe from demandi | based on alleged verbal contracts made by brokers.

Mr. Wotton having reviewed the plaintiff's case, his lordship reserved judgment,

LUSS OF THE STEAMSHIP

"ESSEX!!.

ass, this great reformer and would-i£-he-could-be | Surveyor General. Mr. J. M. Price has quite | 27 feet of water.

We learn that the steamship Esser, reported cargo of wool) during the voyage between Sydney some time ago to have been on fire (amongst her

and Aden, after reaching Port Said in safety, suddenly wank at her moorings off that port in

The Einz was a vessel of 1675 tons, belong bound from Adelaide and Sydney with a valuable cargo of wool for London. She put into Aden with the fire burning, but succeeded in damaged cargo some of which was sold, and extinguishing it, and after discharging the a pertion, comprising bales of bark and wool, re-shipped after being dried-proceeded on her voyage, leaving seventy-two bales of wool behind to be dried. Nothing further transpired In the Red Sea, and. Suez was reached on "July, 1st and Port Said two days later. At 9 pm, on July 3rd the fire again broke out while the steamer was at her moorings taking in bunker Coal, but at 1:15 the following morning.the Captain reported that the conflagration bad

public benefactor-on terms which may be enough to answer for without being unfairlying to Messrs. Money, Wigram & Co., and was learnt on application at the office-actually asserts that the proper remedy for the insanitary and unhealthy conditions which have caused so much discussion "is a good system of trams with workmen's trains, augmented, if necessary, by steam ferries," This may, of course, be con- sidered intelligent journalism by some people. but to our view it is nothing but childish non- sense, and clearly shows the writer to be a thick-skulled and cantankerous ignoramus. It would be of some Interest, to know by what iniraculous method, the good system of trams

subjected to the weak rancour of the chartered nulance who weekly floods the colony with his crude notions of people and things. After a careful examination of the Race-course we do not hesitate to assert that both the racing and training" tracks could be placed in fairly good working order, without any trouble whatever, in a month's time. As they are not immediately required by the members of the Jockey Club we asume that the Surveyor General is not hurrying on with the necessary alterations; however, the sporting community can rest assured that Mr.

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Although the Governor of Macao possesses sufficient powers to dissolve the Chamber, it is said that he cannot resort to such a measure unless in extreme cases of direct insubordination, conflict or insult, promoted or offered by the Chamber to the superior authority of the colony, As none of these charges can be brought against the Chamber in the present instance, as, on the contrary, the Senado has been officially praised for the management of its financial and municipal affairs, the dissolved Corporation has now pub- lished a solemn protest in the shape of a manifesto to all the residents of Macao, and this document has been forwarded to the Lisbon authorities. If the myrmidons of the Colonial Office give due consideration to the facts so clearly exposed in the manifesto, if they see the irregularity of the Governor's proceedings in dissolving the Muni- cipal Chamber without previously according it a hearing, or instituting due enquiries into its affairs, but reversing the order of things, and ordering an enquiry after the Chamber was fall may be taken for granted. dissolved-Governorda Costa's premature down-

Match 31st, 1887 was 78,620.597 lbs., ita for the last nine months of 1886, and the first three of 1887. Of this, 75,891,757 lbs. went to Great Britain, 1.563.274 to Australis and, New Zealand, 98,166 lbs, to America, and the remaining million pounds to other places. In reference to this constant increase of the produc tion and export of Indian tea, Herr Feistmantel very properly points out that it is not due to special or temporary causes connected with the production of tea elsewhere. It has gone on steadily and regularly year in year out since 1852; the consumption has grown with the pro- duction, the production with the comsumption, and mainly at the expense of Chinese tea. We give the following table in full, much as we dis- like long tables of this description in the body of an article; but it shows the situation in the great and momentous battle, Indinn versus Chinese teas, so clearly and simply, that it is worth columas of mere verbal description. The table shows the percentages for the various years of the tea imported into Great Britain supplied by India and by China

End of the Year. 18ύς..

885 1885. April

Percentage of

Indian

Percentage of Chinese Tea,

We have so far only given the anti-guberna- torial view of the case, as we would rather err on the side of Uberty than on that of despotism. If the Macao Municipality is entirely in the wrong, events will soon demonstrate its folly in tilting against the superior authorities of the colony i

it is in the right, and everything so far points It will be remarked that this table only deals in this direction,' it is high time the. Lisbon with British tea consumption, which is put down some less despotic and more competent man to Colonial Office substituted Sephor, da Costa by at about 170 millions of pounds per annum." Of govern Macao,

CORRESPONDENCE.

course the total export of Chinese tea is still far beyond that of Indian tea, in 1885-6 the quantities were 66 million and 144) million pounds from India and China respectively; but Indian, tea has to make its way in the United States and the Continent of Europe as it has done in Great Britain. And seeing that it has progressed in the latter country by leaps and bounds because of its good qualities, and in fair, TO THE EDITOR OF THE *Hokavona TELEGRAFIL light with Chinese tea, there seems at present SIR-I see in your paper of last night that

We do not nearly undorse the oplafocs used by

Corrispondente la thia columra-1.7

STREET OUTRAGES

no reason why it should not, in time, succeed

DR. CANTLIE will relate his experiences in Egypt with workmen's traina is to be set going in this Price is quite in a position to carry out his been got under and that the waler was you refer to a fight between the police and equally well elsewhere during the late war in that country at the Colony until our principal thoroughfares have promise to the Clerk of the Course, and that the being pumped out of the ship, the after some seamen or firemen of the steamer Guy The Indian tea trade now gives employment

Garrison Theatre to-morrow evening, com: "mencing at 8 o'clock."

been widened to as least double their present extent, and also where the trams, trains, and steam ferries are to run to The hope of Hong On Thursday next the American Musical Comedy kong is in a gigantic scheme of Praya reclam- Company will perform at the Theatre Royal, ation, of which Mr. Chater's proposal is merely Cily Hall, Sydney Grandy's amusing farcical the first instalment ; and that it will be carried comedy "The Arabian Nights." Benedict's out, the China Mail and its interested cop popular opera "The Lily of Killarney" is undertributor notwithstanding, has already been lined for Saturday.

placed beyond the region of doubt,

commencement of the training season will not be delayed a single day beyond the Jat of November, When the Public Park will be finished we should not like to hazard a guess, although there is no apparent reason to doubt that the Surveyor General's estimate of one year from the commencement will be extended. But in any case, the non-completion of the Park will not affect next year's Races. ··

bold being perfectly sound and clear both of Gre and water. However, at 8.40 am. the bulkhead separating the fore-bold from the stoke-hole suddenly gave way, and the Esser cut down in 27 feet of water. In the course of that day the Captain wired the owners that the cargo was being discharged that the ship was damaged near the deck under the bridge that a good deal of cargo had been burnt; and that be was arranging with the Canal Company to lift the ship

Mannering, which was perhaps as brutal and to 500,000 persoas, engager nineteen millions uncalled for an outrage ai bas ever been com sterling of capital, and the harvest of the current mitted by this class of men when ashore on year in estimated as worth $4,500,000 ₫In liberty. I was an eye witness to the greater part recent years the price has steadily become less of the row, and my object in peaning this is not and less, as in the case of Chinese tes, and tho so much to bring to the notice of the police tea industry in consequence is not so remeners- authorities the positive attack of the drunken tive as in former years. This state of things the Bremen as the negative method of defence. Indian planters have met by cheaper production, pursued by the Indian policeman who, standing by means ofthe introduction of machinery, and by all the time while the three desperadoes other appliances, by more rapid and cheaper kicked and cuffed his colleague, did nothing 10

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