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know where Jelubu may happen to be, but we are told on very good authority that the Syadi- cate above named acquired the valuable property for a period of 25 years, including the valuable although yet undiscovered tin deposits, for the sum of $12,000, and this wonderful concession

they are willing to philanthropically band over. to an impoverished public-we leave off here for a moment in order to shed a silent tear--for the paltry return of $15,000 in cash and $50,000 in fully paid-up shares of the Company, How awfully good these Singapore speculators are-- and how abnormally innocent, Wealwaysthought Billy Tinman as poor Fred. Essex used to designate "Smarty" in the Malherbe affair in Shanghai-would strike oil somewhere, but our notion was that he would rise Phoenix-like the simile is old and fusty, but it answers our purpose as a leading light in the missionary world, for which his special attributes peculiarly mistaken in the once famous "jock "—but to fitted him. We are certainly very much ear is human, etc., etc., as our late larsented friend Stigging used to say.

We find this in the "Jellybag" prospectos :- Mr. W. Dunman, the roanager of the Syndi cate, when he first went to Jelebu to take charge of the concern, wrote with regard to the richness of the tin ground as follows *—

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The question which came to my mind on visiting the mines in Sunghei Ujong, and where there is still plenty of good land unopened, was, why does one take the trouble to go to Jelebu over a pass some 1,300 feet high and a distance of 23 miles ? This is answered by the fact that on the Sungbei Ujong side of the range, the ..stratum of tin producing sand lies at à dịp h of 30 to 40 feet, requiring a lot of excavating and also pumping machinery; while on this side of the range the ore lies at a depth of from 5 toy feet and sometimes a bit deeper, so that the work is trifling in comparison, no pumpa are necessary, and prospecting is much easier and surer; and, although provisions are mach dearer, still an the system on which we are working, this actually adds to the profits of the concern." Likewise this:-

"The town of Klawang, where the Collector of Jeleba resides, and which forms about the centre of the Syndicate's selections, is connected by a cart-road with Seramban, the Residency of Sunghei Ujang, the distance being 33 miles. From Seramban to Arang Arang, the sea-port of destruction, and after the railway will be odd

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Sungle Ujong, a railway is now under con

goods in transit from Singapore to Jelebu, and vice-versa, will occupy under two days,

in our midst. Perhaps it may be selfish to grudge our Singapore friends this little windfall, in view of their disastrous ventures in Punjoms, but they bave played the game far too low down for Hongkong. The "Jelly bag " enterprise won't stand critical investigation oven on paper.

TELEGRAMS.

(From Straits Times) THE GREAT COMMONER.

LONDON, March 30th. In the House of Commons, all the members being uncovered, Mr. W. H. Smith and Mr. Gladstone pronounced an eloquent panegyric on the late Mr. John Bright.

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Mr. Justin McCarthy, in the absence of Mr. Parnell, said that Irishmen, whilst regretting Mr. Bright's secession from the Liberal cause, could not but recall the services rendered by aim to Ireland, and join in the tribute to the memory of the great Englishmani,

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ·

CHLARINI'S CIRCUS has returned to Mail after a successful tour through the Provinces.

We have to acknowledge receipt from the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs of the "Returns of Trade and Trade Reports for the year 1888.""

M. JULES SIMON recently declared French to be the most difficult language in which to talk non- sense. Yet it has been the diplomatic language of Europe for over a century.

MESSRS Russell & Co. inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Callerthun left Poit Darwin for this port on the 4th inst., and may be expected to arrive on the 13th.

A MARK Lodge of St. John, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

THIS morning Mr. Follock, sentenced an Irish sailor named Herlihy to a month's imprisonment brothel. He said he took them " for a lark." for stealing a pair of earrings from a Chinese

"It is the intention of the Company to work A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, the Mines on the well known "labur tumpang No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, system, which has been so successfully practised lately by the Rawang Tin Mining Company and

Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the 16th instant, at which is also already successfully introduced in | 8.30 forg p.m. precisely, Visiting brethren are Jelebu by,other European Mine-Owners. This } cordially invited.

secures the Mine-Owner, with a propor.

THE total amonjakke Customs in Febr

Comercio observa previous returns, ans

increase on greater more. ment in commercial transactions at the capital.

A RECENT English investigation shows that with men over 25 years of age the intemperate use of alcoholic beverages cuts off ten years from life. Also that occasional indulgence, if entried to: excess, doubles diseases of the liver, quadruplen diseases of the kidneys and greatly increases deaths from pneumonia, pleurisy and epilepsy.

The Manila | assistant and I arranged to leave at 6 pm. alternately. Then Mr. Watts suggested that one hot. The

should be there at 7 a.m., and this was done, an bour being then allowed for breakfast. I have never failed to carry out all orders, or been censured for unpunctuality. On the 38 h March. I went to the shop at nine o'clock, and felt at three or four o'clock,. During the day another assistant named Cullighan drew my attention to a written notice hung up fixing the times at which we were to go to tifin, three- quarters of an hour being allowed each of us. Another assistant, named Napier, tore it down, but 1 pasted it up again, and went in to see Mr. Watte. He said those were our hours, and when I protested he said 'D-a you, you may protest you'll have to do is" I then left the office. At one o'clock I went to tiffin, and stayed 55 minutes. On my return I resumed work, and between two and thice o'clock Mr. Watts gave me notice. Mr. Waits takes over an hour to his tiffin. I cannot get my tiffie in less than an hour, and that had always been allowed until Mr. Watts altered it

THIS morning the head coolie in the Com- missariat Department was again charged before Mr. Wodehouse with stealing a quantity of stores, Mr. Hastings, for the defence, called a coolle who stated that about a year ago Sergeant Tighe told the defendant to put the goods away, as they were over, and they were accordingly concealed. Mr. Hastings then asked that the case might be committed for trial, and it was accordingly remitted to the Supreme Court, bail being accepted.

THE following figurès are given as the relative weight of men :--

Five feet and one inch should be rzo pounds, Five feet two inches should be 26 pounds. Five feet three inches should be 113 pounds. Five feet four inches should be r30-pounds. Five feet five inches should be 142 pounds. Five feet six inches should be 145 pounds. Five feet seven inches should be 148 pounds. Five feet eight inches should be 1155 pounds. Five feet nine inches should be 169 pounds. Five feet ten inches should be 169 pounds, Five feet eleven inches should be 174 pounds. Six feet should be 178 pounds.

By Mr. Stokes --I tried for the post of manager, in London, but afterwards agreed to come out as second. I didnot say to Mr. E. C. Ray, that I didn't think I should like Mr. Watts. Mr. - Ray's brother in London told me Mr. E. C. RAY would help me, and he frequently did so. When Mr. Watts arrived I met him cordially. I did not say to him "Who the devil are you?" the first day, when he told me to put something away. I was salesman, in the shop. He did not com- plain that 1 allowed the stock to run low. Ha has not complained that I have been over an

hour at tiffin.

Mr. Stokes: You said you could not tiflin under fifty-five minutes?

Witness-No, I can't.

His Lordship --Filly-five minutes is the quickest on record. (Laughter).

Witness continued: -I did' occasionally have a smoke afterwards. When I went to see Mr. Watis about the notice I did not use violent language, calling him a liar of the worst kind, or a cad, or anything of that sort. I did not say THE Chinese question is being warmly discussed.

I should take an hour, and take care the others. by the Mania Press. The immigration of did; I simply said I couldn't take my tiffis in less time. I was never insubordinate to him Celestials into the Philippine Archipelage finds in business. He went out after the altercation, ready advocates in that section of the Manila and on his return gave me my notice, and community which is either directly or indirectly offered me my wages, but I refused to accept interested in Chinese Jabour. The Government either, Next day Messrs. Sharp, Johnson and Stokes sent it to me. There was not a violent derives a substantial revenue from the pol tax

row when he offered it the day before, but I which is levied on all Chinese residents, and is refused to leave until I got an extra month's pay consequently not averse to their further im- and a free passage, and he got frantic about migration into the county, But the middle

It. He threatened to send for the police. After- wards I met Detective sergeant Macdonald, classes, the stop-keeping fraternity, and the

and he advised me not to create a disturbance. native Philippine labourers of all kinds are de- I said I shouldn't think of doing, as I was cidedly antagonistic to the Chinese invasion careful not to prejudice my caso, I went to my of the Islands which has been slowly but

room to pack up, but when Mr. Watts told me surely taking place during the past few

to get out my things by six, I demurred. I asked permission to leave them there until next mara- years. Opinions being equally divided on the ing. With regard to the meal-times, Mr Walls subject, the Manila papers which have under-did not object to my taking an hour for breakfast. taken to represent them, have ranged themselves

I objected to having only three-quarters of in under the respective banners of Chinaphobists our for tifla, as I was intending to go to Wanchai to board, and besides it is the universal and Chinophiles. The Diario, Comercio, rule, when taking meals outside, to have an Opinion, Voz and a 'couple of other organs are hour.

other on the advantages or disadvantages of Celestial immigration. While this in advocated by some of these journals on purely economic grounds, the others condemn it for moral and social reasons, religious considerations being

(be Herssong deligraph systems out of Capital, a certain return of MANILA papers, during Lent, are in the kabit of untiring in the battle they wage against each

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lucky passessors-but that is not our fault. Now, sit back, get out your cheap Manila, order, a whisky and soda, and-listen. The other day' we received the prospectus of something that is called The Jelebu Mining and Trading Com pany, Limited. What that something is we don't pretend to know; after we have spun thla little yarn our numerous readers can reckon the affair up as they feel inclined. The "Jellybag" Campany--that is our own prelly linic wit and it has been duly copyrighted-bas | been incorporated under the Indian Companies' Act of 1800, whereby the liability of shareholders is limited. The prospectus doesn't say to what extent the liability is limited, but then-that is a mere matter of detail. Anything from Singapore is good enough for the nincompoops and clodhoppers of Hongkong, don't you know! Oh yes. The capital of the "Jellybag" it only $225,000, divided into 45,000 shares of $5 each, payable $1 per share on application and $3 | pershare on allotment. That is all. Yes, we can

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safely assure our readers, that is all. Ahi by the way, here is a nice tittle inducement, a sugary little plum we bad almost overlooked- 'share warrants to bearer can be obtained in lieu of share certificates, thereby avoiding the necessity of transfer of shares." No robbing the public revenue there oh dear no; the pro- the "Jellybag" ain't built that way, But let us proceed. Ten thousand fully paid up shares are to be taken by the vendors who are the vendors, by the bye-in lieu of cash, and thirty-five thousand shares are offered to the public. Generous vendors,lucky public! And now we are introduced to the Directors, who are decidedly a nice lot of men-of their class. Th. Sobst, Exq, is a noteworthy individual in Singa. pore; we are constantly colliding against his name in connection with limited liability com- panies, and he is a merchant and partner in the eminent firm of Pullfarcken & Co. Surely that record is good enough for anybody's money There are three other gentlemen on the Board,

at least to per cent. on the tiu preduced and a profit of from 15 to 25 per cent, an opium, tobacco, cloths, provisions elc, supplied to the miners,

Sufficient mines are now opened to admit 2,000 coolies to work, and taking the average production per man per annum only to 6 piculs in, which is very moderate considering the richness of the ground in Jelebu, the Compatiy may count upon turning out 12,0co piculs of un during the first year's working.

Besides the profits to be made on working the Mines as above stated, the following sources of profit will be opened to the Company.

(a) The sale for cash payment and a royalty, of sub-concessions, entitling individuals or Companies to work past of the Company's lands; the fact of the Company's selec. tions consisting of so many separate blocks greatly facilitate such sales.

(b) The purchase of tin and tin ore from such sub-concessionaires and other independent miners and the resale in Singapore 'or Евторе.

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(c) The supply of provisions, opium, tobacco, cloths, mining tools, etc, to sub-conces sionaires and others, '-

"The Property comprises also a piece of land situated in the best part of the town of Klawang, on which a house for the Manager and Godowns are in course of construction,"

We don't suppose for a moment that Mr. Dunman, when he first went to Jelebu to take charge of a business of which he could not possibly have known the most rudimentary detail, went down forty feet to find "the stralum of tin-producing sand," but all this rubbish looks well in a prospectus where gulls are wanted, and no doubt it serves an end in the particular docu- ment now under review. It is not necessary to criticise the other stuff we have quoted ; rubbish of that kind is self-convicting. It is nevertheless a great pity that the promoters did not secure some person to draft their prospectus who could write the English language grammatically. The business of this Tin Mining Company, however, it may be just as well to point out, is to be managed by Mr. W. Dunman, a 'capital fallow of infinite jest, a good clerk and in his best day a better jockey (on board a Mongolian racer), a fair actor and a really pleasing amateur tenor singer-but in Heaven's name, where did Billy Dunman acquire the knowledge and experience to manage the practical working of a tis mining company with a capital of a quarter of a million dollars? This game is much too thin-or rather it would be, so far as Hongkong is concerned, if at the present moment we bad not in our midst a mad spirit of idiotic speculation

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publishing whole sermons written by the local clergymen for the edification of the vast majority of short-sighted people who cannot see any thing except through a pair of ecclesiastical spectacles.

FAUST" was repeated with great success at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, by

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Miss Amy Sherwin's Opera Company, in the presence of Admira! Sir Nowell Salmon and large audience. "La Sonnambula" is under- lined for Thursday night. The box plan is now open at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited.

olen appealed to as an easy way of solving

the problem. Meanwhile the Chinese current

time does not appear to be far distant when its is steadily flowing into the Archipelago, and the

numerous inhabitants will be intimately mixed up with the Celestial element, for better or for warse. That the Chinese excel the native Inhabitant of the Philippines in energy and in oxen and buffaloes has spring up in Hanoi.activity there cannot be the least doubt, but at Within a short, time, says our contemporary,

the same time it must not be forgotten that our the European merchants of the various cities of Celestial brother is essentially an uncivilising

THE Avenir du Tonkin notes that a vast traffic

the Delta will be able to obtain their live stock

in Hanoi, instead of repairing to the interior where their lives and property are constantly endangered.

THE fellowing are the Orders of the Day for the meeting of the Sanitary Board, to be held to-morrow the roth inst. at 4-15 p.m.-

Letter from the Honourable Colonial Secretary, regarding site for an Epidemic Hospital.

Reports by the Inspector of Live Stock, regard ing outbreak of disease among the cattle in the depôt a: Kennedytown in February last.

THE following choice little item appears in the Bangkok Times of the 30th alio, We have to amend a new item in our issue of the 16th inst. and to state that the person therein referred to was not Mr. Heck, who, besides being of well known respectability, is a married man, and in which lately became our duty to record in these every way incapable of the unseemly conduct

columns.

CONSIDERING that the public are still interested in the Hongkong Steam Laundry Company, Limited, we cannot but think that the semi- private fashion in which the third ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders, held on Saturday last, was conducted is much to be deprecated. No notice of the meeting was advertised in the news- papers and no intimation was given to the repre- sentatives of the press. A circular was doubtless sent to the shareholders on tile register—whether that is sufficient to meet statutory requirements or the Company's Articles of Association we are unable to say, but the Directors are quite

element. The Philippines under Chinese rale

would be like one of the many dead-and-alive provinces of China, where life and commercial undertakings are at a standstill owing to the corrupt administration of the mandarinic class. The Spanish element has somewhat leavened the Philippine masses; but, in the first place, the process of nationalisation has been very slow, and in the second, Spaniards do not seem to be very succesful as coloniser. In order to prevent a Chinese invasion of the Philippines, we think the Archipelago should be, as it were, inoculated with clements sufficiently strong to either check the spread of the invasion, or assimilate the invaders, forcing them to assume a higher type of nationality and civilisation.

MESSRS. DAKIN BROS EMPLOYES

heard the cases Heighington . Dakin Bros. At the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Clarke, sitting in Summary Jurisdiction, and Heighington v. Watts. The cases were taken separately.-Mr. Webber appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stokes represented the defendants.

Mr. Webber, in opening the case, said that the plaintiff was engaged by Messrs. Dakin Bros., in and clerk, for five years, at $1,66 to begin with, London, last August, to come here as assistant-

and an annual increase of $100. The agree ment contained a clause under which: Messrs. month's salary and a free passage boue! He Dakin Bros. could terminate it by giving came out in September, and continued to work for the Company until the 28th ult, when some difference arose between him and Me Watts, the manager, as to the length of time necesary

John Wong said :—I was formerly employed in Messrs. Dakin's shop as book-keeper, at $50 a month. I had been studying medicine in the Alice Memorial Hospital previously, Mr. Watts used to complain of mistakes, and "d-d”me. I left on the and Apill. I never heard Mr. Watts swear at the plaintiff.

James Napier (who attempted to take the oath on Mr. Dyer Ball's head) was then called, and stated that he was employed by Messrs. Dakin. He remembered one dispute between the plaintiff and Mr. Watts, in which the former asked "Who the devil are you?" As far as he knew, the plaintiff had not neglected his work, or used insulting language to Mr. Watts. Witness tore down the notice about tiffin, and plaintiff put it up again, but erased his name from it. There was no "scene" in the subsequent interview.

By Mr. Stakes:-1 never heard the plálotið call.Mr. Watts an opprobrious name."

Daniel Cullighan, another assinant, denied that there had been any bad language used by the plaintiff in any altercations between him and Mr. Watts. He heard the latter complains that the plaintiff took an hour to tiffin. Witness previously thought they were good friends, after which he called

Mr. Stokes then briefly addressed the Court,

Frank W. Watts, who stated -1 am manager for the defendant Company. I arrived on tha 9th November. Plaintiff had arrived six weeks When I arrived I found things not in order, before to superintend the fitting-up of the shop. everything being jammed together. On one occa sion I complained to him about invoices lying about, and he asked me who are you?" and when I said I was the representative of the Company he made further unpleasant remarks In November be refused to index the invoices,

saying he was not a clerk, and also refused to dress a show-case.. I told him in December that I wanted one of the assistants to stay on the

premises, and left it to him to arrange it.

afterwards heard complaints that customers

tiff the next day who should have been on duty. could not be served at night, and found two of the naistants the Circus. On asking plain-

he straply "replied "Not me." Every order I gave him he either treated with derision os made some excuse for not complying with I studiously refrained from giving him any excuse for being Insolent, and he was left to a great extent to work as he liked, but still he was far from satisfactory. In February I mentioned to the assistants that their hours for tiffin were very irregular and that they sometimes took from ona o'clock to three. On one occasion I told the voluntarily I should have to make a rule for it, plaintiff that if he could not be more pandaal on the 28th March I therefore wrote an order fixing the hours for each of them to go to tiffs, and allowed three quarters of an hour. I myself fad that long enough in Calcutta, where I

"THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1889 is Printed on a superior quality of Paper, and is the best printed and most handsomely bound volume published East of the Suez Canal "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST," în order that it may circulate extensively outside this Colony dan burdered at This Out PRICE, and can be ordered at Office, or through any of our Agents at the various Ports all more or less known to fame, one of the which threatens to spread ruin and disaster well aware that numbers of shares are held by month's salary or the passage money, minutes, but that they should be away only a

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There is not space in the compass of an Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informa tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly asserted that no such Directory has ever been published, either in Hongkong or any other part of the East, at such a low price.

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'dauntless' three' being a' Chinese, Lee Keng Keat, Esq.,--the style is that of the prospectus, not ours--and the last, but not the least, is that speculative leviathan, Mr. W. Buchanan Smith, Oh yes, the Punjom "error" is in this business fairly in it, as the music hall poets and Rope Company riggers elegantly and eloquently express this special state of affairs,. The “Jelly, bag” possesses an imposing army of bankers, solicitors, auditors, and general agents, but we don't just at present feel disposed to give the entire crowd a free advertisement-and so wo pass on to the next caravan.

What is this "Jellybag" Company, and who

throughout the colony.

persons in the colony who have not registered, It is reported that no fewer than twenty-nine. but who would have done so had the meeting thousand shares of this "Jellybag" company been properly advertised. It seems that there have been applied for from Hongkong ; and also was a fair attendance, Messa. E. L. Woodin that business has actually been done, on shares and D. McCulloch representing the Board of not yet allotted, at as high as $10 for $2. paid-up Directors and the first named gentleman acting shares. All this is, of course, pure nonsense, and as chairman. The report showed that the rent it is sheer speculation and nothing more. Nobody from the Company's premises at Bowrington for in a sane state of mind would apply for these the past year, after paying interest on overdraft shares-on the face of the prospectus as an and all petty expenses, left a credit balance of about investment, the applications simply represent $500. On the motion of the Chairman, acconded an insane spirit of reckless gambling. If this by Mr. John Grant, the report and accounts were Jelebu Mining and Trading Company, Limited, unanimously adopted. Messrs. A. Johnston and were really 'a good thing, the Singapore people D. McCulloch were re-elected as Directors and

for tiffin. In consequence of that Mr. Watts gave him his notice, and refused to pay the extra By consent between the parties the evidence in the case was agreed to be used in the second car in which Mr Heighington claimed $1,000 from Mr. Watts for illegal arrest and false imprisonment,

was only half-an-hour, 1, did not intend that

worked for over seven years the allowance they should be limited to exactly forty five reasonable time. About an hour af er posing the notice the plaintiff came in and said that he would not obey the order, nor should any of the other assistants. He certainly did not say he had come..to..protest against the notice, nor Mr. Webber then called—--

did I say "D-n you, you may protest." Thomas Gordon Heighington, the plaintiff, who ordered him to go back to business, and said-1 became acquainted with Messrs. Dakin afterwards, feeling that his threat to cource Bros. of Chins, Ltd, in London, and in August last the other assistants was serious. I went loses atgned an agreement to act as clerk and assistant Mr. W. H. Ray. On my retum he said he to them, at a salary of $1,660, and an increase of wished to leave, and asked for a month's curs $co a year. I was to have rooms, and provide pay and a passage home at once. I said I had ng myself with board. I arrived in September, power to do it, and becalled me a cad. I ordered and superintended the fiting up of the establish. :| him to leave the office, and next morning, after ment. Aboul six weeks after my anival Mr. seeing Mr. Ray again, I decided to dismiss him. Watis, the manager, arived. The shop was I accordingly wrote out his notice. (Most of the

room overhead, and -100k my meals at the the reporters). In the row... which ensurd, Hongkong Hotch. My salary was paid until plaintiff threatened to knock me down, and aller the end of February. I faithfully carried out my I had seen Mr. Ray, I asked the polica for agreement and attended to my duties, antu protection. The inspector promised to send

man down. March, being in the shop all the time except for a short time when I went to Amoy, at Mr.!! Br Me Webber-The reason the other Dakin's order. I received letters from Mr. assistants did not hear the plaintiff's bad Dakin subsequently, congratulating me on the language was because he carefully lowered bis success of my mission. I have never disobeyed voice, and spoke in a sort of concentrated or been insolent to Mr. Waits, nor has he compassion, The Mr. Ray, I have spoken of plained to me at am to 7 pm Mr hours for from is advising me is My W. H. Ray Hi

one hour for tiffo, Eu a shareholder in the Company, and algas, the February the file wne, kterial, and the second cheques. I do not know wwen. Law, dermage for

the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges is running the show? Well, so far as the would keep it to themselves ; they have nothing | Mr. S. J. Gower as auditor. Some discussionpened', informally in December. I had «' succeeding evidence was entirely inaudible to

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prospectus, so kindly forwarded to this office, goes, to hope or fear from Hongkong, and running afterwards took place as to an offer that had the whole concern would seem to concentrate in ❘ their show here is only a “feeler" at the weak. been made to purchase the Company's property the person of our old friend Billy Duuman, other aces, of the low and unprincipled gambling on behalf of a proposed local Furniture Manu- wise! Smarty. Yes! William appears to have fraternity, who are ready to rush in anywhere facturing Company, but as the amount tendered, got some of the "Johnales on toast this time. where a shekel is to be made or a quiet swindle was considered too low and the conditions of Enough of this stock exchange levity; let us to perpetrated. The only influence the Jellybag payment unsatisfactory, the offer was not enter- business. The Company is being formed for Company can have on Hongkong will be taking tained. The Directors were, however, empowered the purpose of acquiring the mining rights and away a considerable sum of money which might to continue negotiations, and to report progress property of the felubu Tin Mining Syndicate, be very much better invested in anyone of the to the shareholders if any further offer were Limited, in the state of Jelubu. We don't exactly | numerous legitimate enterprises now under way | mundo,