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BIRTHS.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

At Cebu, Philippine Islands, on 9th May, the wife of H. A. MacLeod, Esq., of a daughter. On the 20th May, the wife of W. B. Bui,

of a son.

honghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3,1891,

OUR OFFICIALS.

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not dificult to secure, and the Foreign Legations have long been in possession of correct data upon this subject, which by a curious coincidence received conclusive testimony In 1887, after the Oplum Conven- tion of Hongkong, and when the additional Income to provide for the augmentation of the revenue cruisers and their maintenance had to be petitioned for to the Throne by the Inspector General, The following was the position of the Customs—UT 1887...... Tit. 20.541,399.00 1888...... 23.167,893.00 1889...

21.823.766.00 1890...

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at.996,226.co

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1891.

THE Crown colony of Hongkong, of all 1891 (eatd.) not lessthan 1890 Crown colonies, if unique in no other The total cost of the Customs adminis- respect, is certainly unequalled in the reck-tration before 1887 was under taels lessness and audacity with which the publle 1.250.000.00, but the additions to the revenue is squandered by its Executive, In Beet and extensions of the service to newly we consider that ten per cent. of its dismissed both charges, which had hopes brokers? No.. Do they job? It 1s

opened Treaty ports were assumed to bring it up to about taels 2,000,000, or under ten per cent. (100) of the revenu collected.

deilance of public opinion and in disregard of true public needs or requirements. A glance at the paper laid on the Legislative Council table on the 10th of April last, as to the cost of official salaries, should convince even the most obtuse of the accuracy of this allegation.

Under salaries and personal allowances, the cost in NY

1887 was $$47,650.00

1888 1889 1890

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532,875.00 602,183.00 655.233.00 1891 (estimated): 758,139.00 Under Public Works Department

$49,402.00 62,336.00

salaries and personal allowances In--.

1887 were 1888 1889. 1890

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58,139,00 $5.998.00

1891 (estimated) 68,460.00 Under Resident Engineer in-

that it is excessive. But a very different HOW IT IS DONE IN HONGKONG. state" of things" exists in Hongkong, where forty percent. of the colony'srevenue

Loven under existing regulations consumed in salaries and personal allowances to its Bervants. And now, as to a comparison

as to the respective efficiency of the two

Services. Instead of a well-organised orderly, energetic and economically.con- ducted body, as in the case of the Imperial Maritime Customs, what do we see in Hongkong Inefficiency, lack of discipline, disunity (except in the acting of a pay- grab), and waste rampant, as well as clear evidence that the colony is over-burdened by superfluity of the official element. The Aanoa disaster, and the Cargo bpatmen's strike referred to in the hasty and ill-conceived minute of Governor Des Vœux to the Chamber of Commerce the other day, will support the first portion of our assertion, and as regards the latter, we opine that the fact that

two

innocent

SIX DOLLA PER QUAR

AJUNTY

Kiwicz on this bill, the malinciples

ed to protect. It is our intention, to trylow M., of which have been strongly aduated in our columns for many years, and then we gentleman intends to go in placing thoroughly understand how that

the share business of this colony on a comprehensible basis, we shall have no hesitation In placing our views, whatever they may be worth, before the Hongkong public.

F

THE MAXIM GUN CORPS,

wait," this Colony has been possessed of Is "they, also serve who only stand and

Two strong corps of Volunteers for the last two years. generally believed they do "job" and on

There has long been

■ wholesale principle. What then is the

a moribund body known as Artillery excuse for its existence, other than the Volunteers, and in May 1889 & movement imposition of a scale of charges quite was set on foot to establish a second body without precedent? Let us take our older of amateur defenders. It was seen that local companies for examples. Brokerage the budding flower of Hongkong wouldn't was based in the first instance upon the go hauling mountain guns about, and as what might actually be paid-up. Thus, smart uniforms if they could get put on subscribed value of the shares, not upon a lot of young fellows were willing to wear

Banks and Docks, with @ras paid up, were

lighter laboursome other style of soldiering assessed. 50 cents; Sugars, Steamboats, had to be devised. A proposition, to and ices, 8100 paid-up, were conceded 50 was dropped with a dull plunk, as form a company, of Rifle Volunteers cents, but it was a concession, as brokerage not being sufficiently aristocratic, and Compare these brokerages with these Commanding the Troops here, thereupon by right should have been 40 cents.

Major-General BEVAN EDWARDS, then claimed by the Stockbrokers' Association suggested that a Maxim Gun Battery upon later issues of the subscribed value might be raised. Governor DES Vaux of 850; 8a5, 810, and even $5 per shares: thought the idea feasible, and convened a Hongkong Fires $ 250-brokeragest.co semi-public meeting at which about a Uniods: Craton ... 250-

dozen of a Committee were appointed to Yangi-zes, Chias Fires, Banks, Docks '12-

put the scheme into effect. About half itat Committee have since gone away, or died of old age, but the scheme is sull alive, though torpid. At the time there was quite a lot of public enthusiasm In the matter the Military, Contribution 25 hadn't been doubled then, and the 15 Colony was not so generally bankrupt 50 as it is to-day-and several citizens offered to buy guns and present them to the corps that was to be, If they might be permitted... Of course they were not-wasn't it about that time that. Governor Das Vavx dia- covered an El Dorado in Hongkong, and wrote a Despatch about it! So the Com- mittee simply mat, got about 130 names 50 of volunteers, started an idea of having a mounted corps, and sent in a report to the Government. In February last year-ten. months later the Finance Committee of

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So

Department, covering a coastline 1,200 that this application should be supported are of no public importance whatever, and to be shown that their t miles in length, and its extensive system by Acting Harbour-Master HASTINGS, we will proceed to prove it. Before a police superior to those which the Bi of buoys and beacons, etc., etc., besides as reported, and actually favorably notice was called into requisition to clear

framed no less than of miles fra addition, may follows as a matter of course. And Queen's Road Central from an army of a length of 1,300 miles In safely be set against our Public Works, so on Wednesday a Hongkong police- needy adventurers; before this childishly Department. Its Statistical and Meteoro man was apparently specially told off helpless Stockbrokers' Association assumed logical Departments we may fairly place to assist Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & Swire's against our Magisterial and Observatory public-spirited superintending engineer semblance of authority an iniquitous scale an Inviolable right to stamp with a departments. Its Preventive service, in counting the Chinese passengers together with its fleet of excellent cruisers, landed by steam launches from the of charges, the share business of Hongkong will advantageously compare. In scope, Haniac's Chinese antagonist, and at the was carried out on a fairly respectable character, and importance with our Police Magistracy yesterday we found that and reasonable basis. Its evils are the and Gaol departments, and, as regards policeman, with BUTTERFIELD & SWIRL's creations of later years, and they have Education, the Tuan-wen-kuan will hold energetia factotum in the background, culminated in a still greater evil which is its own favourably against the Central actually criminally prosecuting two Chinese School and its ramifications. So that owners of steam-launches on a ridiculous called, but is not, a Stockbrokers' Associa» the Judicial and the minor department of and utterly unfounded charge of carrying tion. What does this Stockbrokers. Afforestation are the only ones out passengers in excess of their licences. And Association provide? Is there a guarantee in the cold in this estimate, but when when the Magistrate contemptuously fund No. Are its members sworn revenue only is used to pay the total cost of leasly broken down, Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, the administration of this great and effect whose legal status in the matter we fall to tive Chinese Customs Service, whilst no recognise, had the bare-faced audacity to The ratio in com-less than forty per cent. of our revenue is enter the court-room and demand from his prison with the collection of revenue in paid away alone in salaries towards the Worship the reasons why the accused European countries, bear in mind, is high, administrative staff of this circumscribed had been discharged. Mr. A. G. Wuz, but if we come also to take into considera-colony, the comparison certainly becomes who is not always a cotis bolas, tion the exceptional position of the Imperial significant. Maritime Customs, its peculiar scope and

complacent, gave the information desired, but declined to accede to the application effect, we are not prepared to argue

defendants) that Mr. MITCHELL should pay of Mr. Worrow (who appeared for the the costs of the two prosecutions, basing his refusal on the ground that they were Two cases were tried at the Police Court Police prosecutions." We beg leave to on the 28th ulto, which open out a wide remind Mr. Wise and all others whom it field of speculation for the commercial.com may concern, that the notorious, or rather of two steam-launches engaged in plying in November, was the direct outcome of munity of Hongkong. The Chinese owners infamous, so-called "Conspiracy Case," tried in the Hongkong Supreme Court between the China Merchants Co.'s Canton what was openly admitted on oath by river-steamer Kiang-kwan, which anchors Major-General Gorvos, Acting Captain in mid-stream, and the Praya, were Superintendent of Police, to be a Police charged with carrying an excess of prosecution, and that passengers over the number allowed by men were convicted and sent to gaol their licences. Police Constable HARRIS Incompetency, and flagrant neglect of presumably to shield the ignorance, appeared to prosecute on behalf of the duty displayed by Government, officials Government-not altogether B new in a "Police prosecution." It is also departure in procedure at the Hongkong noteworthy that Mr. A. G. Wisx, in Magistracy, although a policeman in the his capacity of police magistrate, who rois of lawyer is admittedly a phenomenon busybody pay the costs of an impotent and yesterday refused to make a meddling but the actual prosecutor would appear, vexatious prosecution which he had only a rule half the official staff are on from inquiries made by a representative too evidently initiated for reasons that are leave, and the remainder manage to perform the duties of the whole without, of this journal to have been either Mr more than doubtful. on the ground that it however, lessening the monetary burden HASTINGS, R.N., the Acting Harbour Master last September to commit for trial at the was a Police prosecution, did not hesitate of the colony, is proof enough Even under or Mr. Jous MITCHELL, Superintending Supreme Court on the serious charge of this pleasant dual arrangement, we more engineer to Messrs. BUTTERFIELD and criminal conspiracy two men against than doubt if the officials of this colony are Swisz, local agents for the China whom there was not a scintilla of direct

whit more hard-worked than their comrades in the Civil or Military services Navigation Co., which Company owns the evidence, and in the face of the oath of the of the country, The Secretariat, Follce,Halong and substantially interested in that the charge alleged against these men Acting Captain Superintendent of Police the mosquito republics of Central America. Harbour, Magistracy, and Gaol rub along, the Fathan, two steamers running in was based on a Police prosecution for which Does the ratio of Increase of revenue fairly enough with their chiefs away on opposition to the Riang-kwan and other he (Major-General GORDON) undertook bear any fair proportion to the Increase pleasure bent; and, wondrous to relate Chinese-owned vessels at present trading the sole and entire responsibility and for

the Registrar-General's Department and of cost of the administrative staff and Treasury did the same during the on the Canton river. Our Acting Harbour which they were in no way responsible the proposed further pay-grab Increase absence of Mr. STEWART LOCKHART, ven Master did not appear at the Police Court, evidently not the fort of this otherwise Consistency in his legal decisions is so strenuously advocated by our with Mr. MITCHELL-INNES at the helm. and doubtless exercised a wise discretionable and energetic magistrate! official class ? We venture decidedly to say In fact, this last named Department got in keeping away; Mr. Joan MITCHELL did along so well during' the absence of its

But what we want to know at present there is no justification for this official job;itular chief, that recent events have appear, in an informal and exceedingly more particularly is by what extraordinary for not only are we confident that the forced upon us the distinct conclusion mysterious character, and in our opinion licence or sleight-of-hand Mr. Jone present census will show there has been that it can be safely abolished without it would have been just as well for himself MiscHzLL, either in his private capacity or as superintending engineer for Messrs. no abnormal influx of population since detriment to the colony, and the work and for the eminent firm he officially BUTTERFIELD and SwILK, was enabled to the last census, if the geographical distributed over other departments with represents if he had likewise bean secure police assistance in counting the

manifold advantages. The functions of position and circumstances of the colony the Registrar General's department are elsewhere. Mr. MITCHELL, after the two passengers conveyed from Canton by the are taken into consideration, but so far principally confined to registering births, cases had hopelessly collapsed, was good steamship Kiang-tuan? It seems that he as we can judge, search in whatever deaths, etc. The Protectorship of Chinese, enough to vouchsafe the information had the good word of Acting Harbour

Master HASTINGS in his application which its most recent act renders more he had acted as a private individual, and It, or how much that official open rame may urgent public requirement which warrants ridiculous if it were not that the unfortunate would reserve the right to obtain a re-amount to, we are not in a position to this proposed enormous increase of official tax-payers have to pay for the costly salaries. Before reviewing the position vagaries of the so-called Protector in his hearing of the cases, Even in the face of of the official departments in substantiation abortive attempts at harassing the Chinese this worthy citizen's undoubted veracity of our position, let us compare the cost of The Treasury answered well enough and extraordinary public-spiritedness, the administration of one of the most extensive tacked on to the Colonial Secretaryship.general opinloh will be that, under all rege ought to be at once forthcoming; the only excuse for which is to protect It seems to us that the correspondence and important fiscal organizations in the world with that of this colony-we allude to the Imperial Maritime Customs of Chins, administered by Sir Rosar Hant, G.C.M.G., at Peking.

1890 was $19.532.00 1891 (estimated) 22,345.00 The Revenue of the colony during the same period was as follows

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1887 was $1,477,485.79 1888

1.557,300.03 1889

1,823,549-13 1890

4.995,320.47 1891 (estimated)3,053,098.00 2.2 0. So that the cost of salaries and personal allowances alone averages as near as possible forty per cent of the colony's revenue. We challenge this fiscal record beaten by any Government

to be

throughout the world, not even excepung

China Sugara, Lusons, Tramways,

Hongkong Hotels.........

Straits Insurances,

Singapore InsurALCEA, Straits Fires an

Trust and Loans

KUNNOLL

Gas Company'............. Rope Co.'s Bakeries,

Green Island Cements, Cruickshank's, Borneo Hotel's, West Paint Buildings, H. G. Brown & Co's, Kowloon Go- downs, China. and Manila's, Indo-Chines, Denglas Steamboats... Kowloon Lands, Steam Launch Co's, Labuks

Austin Arm, Peak Hotels

-cor

100-

60... 60

50

1777 17

30-**

25

so the Legislative Council had before them a recommendation from the Governor that

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$37,275 be appropriated for, the purchase of twelve Maxim Guns. The cost of each gun was set down at 82,833, with ten per ascent, added for packing and other charges. 35 The present Acting Colonial Secretary 415 || (Mr. W. M. Dxanz) stated that the offers

of presentation guns could not be enter tained for a moment.

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11

$1,200-brokerage

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direction we may, there appears to be no † which it arrogates" to...ithilf, "Is' a Action | that, in what he had done in the matter, to the Police authorities; how he obtained marked when we find shares, such as subject had been sent to the Committee,

gauge with any pretence at accuracy, but we do not hesitate to say, and in no uncer. tain terms, that some duly authorised explanation of this most scandalous out. If the Hongkong police are to be placed at the disposal of either Mr.Joan MITCHELL or. Mesars. BUTTERFIELD and SWIET for purposes of the kind Indicated by the two cases above referred to, it will be just as should be made acquainted with the why and whereiore of this startling now departure.

profig. Not only was the exposure, In theth that opinion we are bound to agree. well, that the tax-payers of the colony dares to emerge from the obscurity which leas; it was their duty to have kept the

matter alive, instead of which they have gradually lost sight of their functions one or two, have retired, another west home to school, two or three more left for other Colonies, and so on.

Tea Co.' Feawicks Gordon's, Brick and Cements..................... Marinburk's _........................................ Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats, Shameen Hotels ...... Balmorals, Dairy Farms Watson & Co........... Campbell, Moore & Co.'s, Electric Lights, Pan Imaris, Raubs....................

joms. Jelebus, Selamas

From that time until Tuesday last, And here are a few curiosities

to when the matter was re-opened in this Journal, not a word. further was heard. North Chinas

250 on the matter by the public. The China Traders

50 Government official who ought to know Trust & Loan, Founders',

5.00 best assured, a Telegraph representative Charbonnagesienia 1314-

250 this morning (28th ulto.) that during the The anomaly becomes even more past six months quite a lot of letters on the Banks, costing 8350, charged with 50 through the Hon. P. Ruz, senior unofficial cents brokerage, whilst others, such as member. We do not, of course, for a Runjoms and Selamas, selling for 82, are moment deny that such communications handicapped with 10 cents brokerage, have been sent, but as Mr. Rados The fact is this:

The Stockbrokers Had anything to do with the Committee, Association is, a Trades Union or Guild, and never passed them, on to that body, and humbly we submit that It has neither gained in dignity nor public estimation circumstances, the yarn as to his alleged since, after poor old Lisa's death, it was disinterested proceedings as an amateur

its members against competition, by may be considered a fallure... On unyoked by Sir WILLIAM DES Vaux to find policeman in the public interest only and

boycotting all freedom of action, and by the other hand, of course, the Com soft seat for a toadying and incapable for no other reason is a trifle too thin, and

such means reducing all to one dead level mittes cannot be held, altogether blame- of mediocrity. And this is the thing that Post Officedefalcations, of the system under We conclude it will be admitted that which the work of this, department was

Let us tee what Mr. MITCHELL did pro bono

is its only safeguard, and attack a measure few better organized or more efficiently, carried out, simply scandalous, but recent publico, and perhaps his actions will

that only aims at limiting the power for evil which a lax system has unfortunately administered services exist wo further circumstances point to the evidence that suggest some patriotic or useful aim he

introduced into share transactions. The claim that the Chinese Imperial Maritime at all events accountancy was not a Hoped to achieve by transforming himself

Stockbrokers' Association, we are informed. The official gentleman to whom we have branch in that expensive curriculum which Customs cannot rank second either according to Mr. MITCHELL-INNES, be for the rance, and for this special occasion

compris 6 members, Rating them atthe referred further stated that the guns were In Importance or administrative weight underwent to At, him for his post, as

lowest as earning $250 a month aroh, this represents a sum of $168,000 a year, which duly ordered through the Crown Agents, to Hongkong, when "itemscope and well as for an augmentation of salary,

has to be paid out of the monthly wages and so far masche know, paid for, ramifications, including Lighthouse and Officers of the Civil Service of Greet It Is notorious that Mr. Mitchelp's

of the working community of Hongkong, or General EDWARD had inspected and Statistical Departments, are taken into Britain and of her Army and Navy accept employers, the eminent and deservedly We promised that odd conglomeration of out of dividends declared by the local pasted them, and some of them

their positions and perform their dulles, renowned firm of Messrs, BUTTERFIELD and consideration, and its annual increase and as we maintain, as eficiently as the Swiss, in conjunction with their allies, and individuals who have assumed the, to them companies. The paper stock of our would be here shortly, but whether extension of interest, as well as the fact that civil servants of Hongkong, without Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat far-reaching, but to others meaningless therefore it must come out of earnings, he couldn't say. The ammunition was local companies does not contribute to it," shortly" meant' a-week; or six months It controls and directe a fleet in efficiency any such double-barrelled extraneous Co., are now engaged in fighting a title of the Stockbrokers Association of and if the 56 brokers representing the already here but how muck there was

exist perquisites as and strength" squal to any second class

In desperate opposition in the passenger Hongkong, that the Hon. J. J. Kaswick's Stockbrokers Association were swept into he didn't know, too, iliwahukas pate European power. Moreover, Sir Rosant the Concos (compteddy draw. tur traffic between here and Canton with the share dealing ordinance should have a the sea, Hongkong would thereby gain. As regards the Mounted Volunteers HART employs's far more numerous staff colonial officials receive), but it remains for kwan, and Tai-on; how stiff this war to the

meagre plitances, (compared with whatour Chinese-owned steamers. Paris. Klang fair show, and that we meant to give it 8165,000 a year. In six years the there is absolutely nothing known; but In his service than does the Hongkong this Colony to set an example of pay-knife is may be fairly guaged by a report a fair show. But, first of all, we should richer by not having to support a hive anything. A corps formed by the local community would be one million dollars they probably won't ever amount to Government, and treats them with excep. grabbing which even Senator McKINLEY that was current yesterday to the effect much like to know what is this Stock-ofunscrupulous drones, who spend the time Bicycle Club would be a deal more useful," tional liberality bath as regards salary across the pond would stand aghast at that the Hankow, Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & brokers' Association. So far as we are not occupied in coursing the streets it seems to us. Indeed we seriously. and leave allowances. Now how does will be quite sime for the colony to SWIE's foating palace, which has lately able to discover, it assires nothing and in smoking cigars in the Club verandah question whether the scheme the cost of the administration of this themselves eficient and trustworthy.

reward its servants when they prove been carrying Chinese passeggers at five conforms to nothing, beyond the assumed cants ahead, was under orders to All up oficient service, on the one alde, compare Leat there be any cavillers at the with "dead-heads" until further notice. right to lapose, for the benefit of its with that of the vaunted Crown colony of appoalteness of our parallel between the What more natural than that Mr. Joux members, an onerous tax upon that section Hongkong on the other? Let us see in cost of the administrative: staff of this MITCHELL, superintending engineer to of the public which is weak anough and the first place Sir Rostar Haarvery wisely Crown colony and that of the Imperial Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIKE, and one of unwary enough to listen to the Interested Maritime : Customan of China, let us their, ataunchest adherents, should id the stipulated from the first with the Imperial day that our contention refers to Crown midst of these, hepley complications talk of a gang whose sole object is Chinese Government that the annual | colonies generally, but Hongkong In desire to know, out of more curiosity of apparently to encourage speculation in Customs ontinuates and expendititre should particular. It must be obvious, therefore, course, how many passengers the opposi, order that they at least may live at ease, be kept secret between the Trung-ll/Yaman that we could not seek for an example la ton boats were bringing down from the The main object of Mr. Keswick's bill delegate and himself. The annual accounts another Crown colony, for they are all in the City of Rams What more natural than of the Imperial, Maritime Customs, in a skim and squeeze on the public bis taking up a position every other day at some to be to provide the weak, and perpetrated by one is carefully watched Giers wharf on the steamer's arrival, and unthinking with some, if only a small, form and precision the very models of and finds a speedy imitation in another. carefully counting the passengers landed measure of protection against unscrupulous statistical periaction, are submitted, verified. Moreover, the Imperial Maritime Customs in steam launches from the King on? operators in aheret; and because of such and passed by, Sir Roseer, Hart, and his combines so bil, Intent and purposes. An application for the assistance of the protection this high and mighty emanation high Chinees official colleague. Hitherto dentical departments, although of a much police in getting up this statistical record of the other day produces an amusing more extensive, and important character, was only reasonably to be expected from chan does this colony in its Secretariat, gentleman occupying Mr. MizerELE' parody on the fitness of things, and talks of Audit, Harbour, Postal Medicats and Influential position as the representative interests threatened," Whatever Interests | the bottom of the Stockbrokers opposition so our last state will be $40,000 WOTHE "Treasury, Departmente," "Its Lighthouse; of Messrs." Buzskádisso" & butEN - 3D

10 Mr. Kurica's measure, but it has yet, than our Arşt, Bolab,

It has therefore been somewhat difficult to obtain, reliable formation on the polat,

| mch Information is China is generál

aids to

edicion

THE STOCKBROKERS ASSOCIA only, Into quite a new and original TION AND MR. KESWICK'S character!'--

BILL,

and consuming cocktails at the Hotel whole will not fall through. The Colony companies, the shares of which are quoted experience of volunteering, and if the bar. The dividends paid by joint-stock || has now had quite a quarter of a century's on this market, amount to about 83,580,000 magnificent display made by the Artillery par annum, of which perhaps one half may at the Queen's Birthday celebration on accrue to and circulate in Hongkong, so Monday is anything to go by there lan's that the support of the Stockbrokers as much practical patriotic zeal here as Association-amounts to nearly, to per cent. would prevent an intoxicated Mfacsense) { upon the yearly incoming, and as net one armed with a brick in the foot of a quarter of the capital stock is floating on stocking, from invading our, Island 'ome, the local market, or within the reach of local and after the outburst of lingofum conte brokers, we may fairly and safely assume quent, on the arrival of the quick-firing that not more than one half the dividend on | guai,la over the corps, will be chiefly that which is negotiated reaches the hands remarkable for the regularity with which of speculators, the other half representing it won't be there on drill-nights, and the tay they voluntarily impore cupen uniforms, will get, moth-eaten; and finally themselves for the upkeep of the Stock the military authorides will take the whole brokers Association, by whose ald they battery away and mount. It in the forts movements, Self Interest naturally at suggested should be done manipulate" andTM control the markeť's sastward, as the Duke of Connaught year, and

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