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LATE TELEGRAMS.

BERLIN, March 19th. It is believed that, if General Caprivi rēsigns the Chancellorship-and it is still uncertain whether he will-the Emperor will not accept his "resignation on the ground that a Chancellor of the Empire cannot resign on account of a difficulty with the Prussian Education Bill

March 20th. General Caprivi has expressed his Intention of not resigning, and it is probable that tho. Prussian Education Bill will be abandoned.

BRUSSELS, March 20th,

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Three classes of the Belgian Miltle will be called out to assist the troops in preserving order during the labour demonstrations on the 1st of May.

LISBON, March zoth,

An arrangement has been come to between the Portuguese Government and the delegates of the bondholders to reduce the interest on the foreign debt by 'one half.

BERLIN, March 21st.

The Emperor William, who is in the country recruiting his health, has postponed his returns to Berlin, his condition requiring him, to abstain from all business.

LONDON, March 22nd.

The House of Commons has adopted a reso- lution expelling Mr. Hastings, member for the Bromsgrove division, East Worcestershire, now undergoing five years' penal servitude for fraud.

THE DELI CRASH.

Writing on the grave financial and commercial crisis said to exist in Deli, Sumatra, 1bc Pinang Gazelle siju

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL & 1892.

island of Mauritius, the latter might perhaps have been able to give the contribution which was asked from her.

Mr. E. Antelme said that the state of their Spances did not allow them even to contribute, a. son as military contribution,

Mr. G. Guibert observed that, according to the Mialsier, the inhabitants of Mauritius were, lens taxed than those of England, but he did not take Into account the fact that the revenues of England were much greater then those of

Mauritius.

Sir. Antelme said that he had great admies. tion for the talent of Mr. Leclexio, but he was compelled to say that he had drawn the gloomy a pletare of the agricul ure +f the Colony. He then drew parallel he ween Mauritius, an English colony, and Martinique, French colony. While herg money was asked from an

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but on the distinct understanding that he should be made solicitor to the company when it was formed. Preliminaries settled, Phillips dised❘ with me, and over our cigars wo proceeded to discuss the next step.

"Instead of floating the Company at present," he said between the whiffs, "I advise you to wait a bit. To begin with, it is the dull season, nobody is in town, and the thing is likely to fall fat. Then again, South African mines are in danced bad odour just now; and lastly, it would be better, I think, to develop the property a bit before putting the scheme before the public.""

"How do you mean ?"

"Why, at present," he said, "you have only got so many square miles of waste land to offer, and have not the remotest idea whether there is a thimbleful of gold on the property or not."

impoverished country, at Marinique which had de Luite so. Whist, theo, do you propie to

lately suffered from the ravages of a hurricane, the Government furnishel it with tony and the

means of recovering itachi.

Mr. Newton said that last year, in pro. testing against the increase of the military contribution, he l'aded to the difference. Is the same existing on this subject in Fng land and France towards thels, colonics. The French cines bave representatives in the Chamber of Depairs, when those of the British Empire have noʻone in Parliament to control the polley which the Government may thinic proper, to adopt with respect to them. Ther cou'd not thereiere oppose that policy. fast year he had occasion to prove that England had never done anything in favour of the Colony's sugars. The bonourable member concluded by saving that all the official mera. bers from the bottom of their hearts were against the proposed Ordinance and in roting for it they would vote against their consciences. He pitted and sympathised with them,

Mr.

A. P. Ambrose also expressed himself as being opposed to the Ordinance.

On being put to the vote the Ordinance was rejected by 15 votes #gainst 12, all the unofficials vating against and all the officials for. The result of the vote was batled with applaase..

THE STRAITS TRADE.

HEAVY DECREASK IN BOTH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

The Imports to the Straits Settlements for the fourth quarter of 1891 (exclusive of treasure) come to-

Singapore .........$21,694 003 Pepan.......... 7.943.000 Malaccivo

355,000

Dell is, unfortunately for those laterested In It, a country with but one Industry-tobacco, and so enormous have been the prefits hitherto derived from its production that no one has ever thought of willing the resources of the country for other purposer. The welfare therefore of the whole population is absolutely dependent upon the value which, from time to time, the tobacco dealers in Europe may place upon this luxury, Last year it was judged unfavourably and only. paid for according

ngly, with the inevitable result that a crisis has occurred which is perhaps unprecedented in the annals of commercial Auctuations. Plantations which in 18go yielded profits of 100 per cent., and even more, were year, with one or two exceptions, harely able The effects of to pay working expenses.. this

best illustrated by quoting some statistics which recently appeared in the Dell Courant. The number of estates to be closed is given at 39; there pre 14,153 tobacco fields less than last year under cultiva being a decréssa; as compared with 1890, of tion; and the whole crop is estimated to pro duce a diminished outpot of 70,000 bales, equal to about 11,000,000 pounds oftobacco. If these figures are reliable, it would appear that some 20,000 coalies are thrown out of employment. without any Hkrlihood of their being able to find ober means of subsistence in the country. The prospect of having in the near future so largo a quantity of unemployed labour to control, and romibly provide lor, naturally excited the alarm of the never too, courageous Government, and they very properly took timely counsel as to the measures to be adopted to meet and cope with this grave crisis. As a result of their consulta. s resolved and enacted that this mass tions it Was of labour, prized and coveted all over the East, and imported into the country at a huge sacrifice to the planters, was to be chased away and banished to other lands, because the governors of Dell were too timid or tea indolent to allow It to remain where it is so sorely needed.

Referring to the First Dutch occupation of Dell

the Gazeffè continues :---

Singapore $ 1,391,000 Penang....... Malacca

2,352,000 100,000

"This. To send out an engineer and some machinery-you can pick up a ship-lord for n fifty-pound note down Woolwich-and to dig a hole in the ground. Then there will be a report from the engineer, an analysis of the soll and a lot of figures to go on. It will be a going concern, you see. With a little ingenuity we ought to make the thing to like thunder. First of a

of all, however, we must get hold of a gord man to seed out, one who knows how to fake up a tip-top report. I think I know the very man for the job."

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He did. Smith was an old hand, and was Prepared, in return for an adequate fee, to go to the North Pole and write a glowing report con Ceruing the rich mineral treasures concealed to that Eitherto inaccessible spot. Smith was commissioned to buy an engine, some spades, -a pump, and a few other things, and to send the

bill to us. 7he total cost was

£75

which was not an excessive cutlay, when you come to think. of, for developing and, working a gigantic mine. Smith shipped bimself and his belongings to the Cape, and in due course we heard that he had started work, and after a few weeks a long report on foolscap paper, and full of technical jargon about quartz, reefs, ledes, winzes, shafts, and things followed, together with a sealed box of ore, which was handed to a big fum of chemists for analysis. The analysis was as rosy as one could wish, and everything looked well.

The next step was to get à vendor, for neither Phillips nor myself wanted to appear in en- rection with the scheme. An advertisement something like the following was inserted in the Times-

Wanted: Young gentleman as seenstary to`x gentleman engaged in financial operations. Must be of good address. Clear handwriting, knowledge of shorthand, and some acquain tance with business rutine indispensable-Apply, in it, Instance, to Ki, care of Flatey and Co.,, Advertulag Agents, Ledger Lane, City.

We got 263 applications, and chose a smart youth, who, in due course, bought the property far which I had riven 125, for the respectable sum of £125.roo. Wonderful how land improves in value when.it is situated only a few miles from dividend paying reef, and when a drunken The total decrease below the fourth quarter of engineer nud a rusty bo ler are dumped down on 1E90 is $1,845,000.

it. Our sharp solicitor saw that everything was right, drew up the contracts and did everything The exports (exclusive of treasure) in the fourth else that was necessary. Then Philips and I put our heads together and drew up the pro- quarter of 1891 are:-

spectus. I need not give that highly original and de ply interesting decument in full. If I did, this might read like a romance instead of a plain statement of solid forts. The analysis gave an As compared with the fourth quarter of the average of 18oz. of gott to the ton, and we gear 19 the decreases atë 3—

$18,166,000

354,000

Sing-pore Penang.............. 8,149,000 Malacca

Singapore ..................$ 1,573,000 - Penang...........1,489.000 124,000

Malaccatu

The total decrease in exports as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1890 is $3 187,000-Straits Times,

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HOW A BIG SWINDLE WAS. FLOATED.

TRUE-NORE OR LESS.

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reckoned how many tons we could bring to the surface daily, the cost of doing it, and the profit we could earn.

it was a fearful proft: some thing to contemplate with awe struck gaze. The dividend we réckoned to pay was 12 per cent, on the ordinary shares, and the founders' shares were to collar everything over that.

The capital was £300,000, divided into 50,000 shares of £5 each, and 1,000 founders' sbares of so each Having gone through the prospe Aus The Lutch canar, and, according to their

a dozen times, making alterations and improve Immemorial custom, energetically el to work to tax all And everything that could yield a revenue,

ments here, there and everywhere, we finally got a clean proof from the printers, with spaces left without causing anduc trouble and expense in

for the bames of directors and other officers of the the colecting. Not content with the ordinary sources of revenue from oplum and spirits, which Someone suggested, the other day, that the company. Phillips get hold of some accountants, In certain well-governed English colonies prac Autobiography of a Promoter would made a ranged with the London and Eastminster tically sufficed to mest all the financial requlie- good sbilling shocker. I daresay it would, I 鼎四

Bank to take the account, and fished up a ments of Government, and which would have experienced man, could be got to put it together. secretary. The directors only remained to be yielded a more than adequate remuneration for If there be such an individual on the face of the secured, and these were notied one at a time. any services conferred on Dell by its present earth as a company promoter with literary ten-There was a colonel, who knew absolutely rulers, the Dutch imposed, in addition, burdensdencies, he is welcome to the ides, and in order nothing about company work an M.P., who on incomes large and small, on land, house to further facilitate the work I will give knew less, if such a state of things were possibles property, horses, aervants, an Imports both of him my experiences. He might find himacif an Easi-end mineral water mater; and myself. luxuries and necessities, and on tobacco, the hard up for a chapter, and if so he might do It was not by any mens what may be termed a sole export of the country. In fact, nothing of worse than fill up the blatus with the following brillant board, but it looked solid and sub- any consideration, save rice, has escaped their account of how I floated the Great Eye-sore stantial, and what is more, honest. "Nothing greed and cupidity. And what return bas the

like looking honest," mattered Phillips, unctu country received for the sacrifice of all this

ously, as he wrote out an order for the printers to wealth? Nothing, absolutely nothing, save

strike off 400,000 cpies of the prospectus, and Court where Justice is scantily

to low, there is one thing more to be done, prison

in stamped wrappers. or two, and tardily administered. handful-of ill-trained soldiers, a

a sprinkling of under-paid officials of

Phillips added, with a yawn Various complexions, and a band. To sum up all. Deli always has been, is and is likely to be for some time to come, shamefully mlageverned. It is the milch cow of the Nether lands Indian Government, the happy hanting ground of Indigent Governors-General. The

Reef

The beginning of the business was thuswise, | In Jane, 1800, an old schooifallow of mine, who had spent the best part of his life kuccking about | Abroad, lęoked me up at my office, and in the course of conversation said that be had bought some land ont at the Cape.

"I gave a few shillings an acre for it ; but, as a matter of fact. I don't suppose it is worth se many pence. You don't happen to know any- one, I suppose, who would like to take it off my hands? It is of no earthly use to me, and I'm rather in want of money just now, so I should

done with it forever."

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Reef was only half a dozeri miles from the Watercress), The price went up still higher, and we cautionsly got rid of every scrap of stock,; Wall, I won't continue the bistory of this nice, Ilitle swindle, Rosy reports ceased coming from the mine, the money continued to melt away, the shareholders .ew. Angry, and a nasty spitefe! lintie parar, which had not been squared on a sufficiently lavish scale, got its kalfe into os

The whole bistory of the scheme was published. In detail, and there was a row. I retired from the Board, and a committee of investigation was anrs'nted to enquire into, matters. The result of the enquiry is the appol-tment of a receiver. and but for a dearth of money, and an absence of spirit amongst the defrauded shareholder

might all have been in the dock of the Old Bailey ere this.

Where the prest Eve-tore Peel it now, Inve alone knows, and, as they used to gay in Capel Court, he won't tell under a p'n'.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

France sends not the best falre hair. Europa user 60 000 coo matchen ďállý, Great Belteln has 203,300 scres of o`chands. Switzerland is, erecting its' first zuger factory, Rula makes 30.000.000 wooden spoons a year. Baltimore compels all plumbers to be licensed, Illinois pays her Lieutenant Governor, $2.77 a day.

Toys employ 33,000 work-people in Thuringis, Central Germany.

The world in producing 1,000,000 pounds of slik a year.

Ahost 2,000 women'are employed in the Elgin, 111, watch factory.

There are 382 miles of street railway, In operation in Palladelphia.

Out of 774 blast-furnaces in Great Britain only 386 are in operation at present,

Q-Jap's Advertisements,

WEST POINT!

WEST POINT!! - EVERY EVENING,

ALL OTHERS YADE WITH THE SETTING SUN, BUT WE APPEAR BRIGHTER THAN EVER:

HARMSTON & SONS'. GRAND CIRCUS.

GYMNASTIC "JACK"

GREAT LONDON OLYMPIC ROMAN HIPPODROME

AND AMERICAN WILD WEST SHOW.

W. B. HARMSTON & SON, SOLE PROPRIETORS.

GILBARTO'S MARVELLOUS FORWARD SOMERSAULT ACT. Three Artistes only have lived that ever accomplished this Wonderful Feat.

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THE WORLD CHALLENGED

Anderton, Ind., is to have an aluminium plant that will employ 1,003 persons.

Filty tank-steamers are now canylug off into produce our Equals. The Meteors that bulk from the United States to Europe.

thadow all others are our Heroes of two Hemispheres.

The fibrous covering of cocoa-nuts is used extrusively in making ropes and mats.

The Sale of Vermont produced over 17,000,000 pounds of maple sager fast year.

Thirteen toss of postage stamps are said to have Seen sold In New York city last year.

There are 10,000,000 degs in the United States, and it costs $200,000 per annum to keep them.

"The Grevest Lady Equestriennes." "The Greatest Vaulters." "The Greatest Somer- #dult Rider. " "The Greatest Jockey Rider."

JOHNNY SHARMAN and HIS TRAINED

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CLOWN,

The world consumes 3 000,000,000 pounds of CHARLEY, THE GROTE QUE MUSICAL parer per year, and it is supplied by 4,500 paper- mills.

A Philadelphia druggist sells bath bags filled with bran and almond meal for softening the skin,

Recent statistics show that the total horse- power represented by the world's machinery, is 334.000 000

"Two factories in Philadelphia use one hundred horse-hides each week to cover base-balls during the reason.

A national assec'ation has been organised in New York to extend the industrial scheme of profit-sharing.

United States, 72,000,000 in Australia, and In 1885 there were $1,000,000 sheep in the roo 000,oco in the Argentine Republic.

States is placed at about 915,000, and the The number of freight cars In the United

number of passenger cars at about 27.000.

Americans only consume about one and a quarter pounds of tes per head yearly, but use from seven to nine pounds of coffee per head to make up for It.

An original and important industry is carried on at Kansas City In the manufacture of soap, from the wild and prickly plant of the prairies, known as the Mex.can

soap weed.

There are now engaged at work on the Niagara Falls tunnel 400 men and sixteen mules, while on the surface too more workmen are employed, Work goes on continuously except Sunday, the men working in 12-hour shins,

The report of the United States Census Bureau shows that the average earnings of all persons employed at the gold and silver mines during the year 1889 were $725 a year, while the average output per man amounted to $1.723 a year."

During the English protectorate over Egypt trigation has been extended in almost every direction, thus increasing the agricultural pro ductions to a wonderful extent. Last year Egypt raised 400,000,000 pounds of cotton, or nearly one-fourth of the entire quantity consumed in Great Britain.

An official list has lately been published of the wages paid in Germany to the whole of the rail- way employds on the State railways in that wealth, their pay, being a little over £500 a year empire. The Presidents do not reap colossal only, and this is by along way the highest salary paid upon the rallway.

DEAFNESS ABSOLUTELY CURED.-A Gentleman'

who cured blmacht of Deafursand Noises the Head, of 14 years standing, by a new method, will be pleased to send fall particulars free. Kensington Park, London, S.E., Eng.-[Advt.

blame does not rest at the doors of the lobe glad to take what I gave for it, and have minster, and knew all about papers and the Address HERBERT CLIFTON, 8, Shepherd's pince,

Government, but firit at those of the Java Government and their whole system, and secondly at those of the European population who have submitted so long and tamely to this colossal system of plunder. No local official can be blamed. In Realdent Michielsen the country has a man inmost thoroughly conscious of the high duties of his office, and most thoroughly anxious to discharge them. But be has merely the power to reglater and carry out the mandates of the powers above him.

THE PROPOSED MILITARY CONTRIBUTION AT MAURITIUS REJECTED.

THE BABY ELEPHANTS.

ARIZONA CHARLEY, KING OF THE LASSO,

EVERY EVENING AT WEST POINT.

TOMORROW AFTERNOON,"

April 9th, at 4 p.m. GRAND MATINEE for Schools and Familles Children Half-price to all parts of the Circus.

PRICES OF ADMISSION : Box of 6. Chairs

*****$12.00 Single seat in Bog

2.00 Dress circle chairs, 150 Staffs, carpeted seats

0.50 Gallery (for Chinese only)... 0.30 Bex plan on view at Kelly & Walsh's, where seats can be booked.

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To-day's Advertisements.

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW,

THE Company's Steamship

"NAMO " Captain Gaddard, will be despatched for, the ahove Ports, on SUNDAY, the 10th instant, at Daylight

Für Fright or Pence, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

· General Managers. Mamaksas 8th April, 1992:

[405 "MOGÜL" LINE OR STEAMERS. · NOTICE TÁ CONSIGNEES,

'S. S. "LENNOX," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, AND

STRAITS.

DONSIGNEËS «f Creste hereby Informed

that all Gords are being landed at their rile into the Gotowns of the Hongkong & Kow Toon Wharf and Gödown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be ob'aine?.

Optional cargo will_be_forwarded unless netice to the contrary be given before Noor, TO-DAY,

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods, have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th inst, will be subjeck

to rent,

All claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the

gth Inst., or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godawns, where, they will be examined on the rgth fŋst., at pm.

No Fire Insurance Fis hern effected. Blile of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 8th April, 1893.

$385

CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION. No. 45.

OTICE is hereby given that FRIDAY

NOTICE

next, the 15th" instant, belog GOOD FRIDAY, will be observed as a HOLIDAY at the Kowloon Cartoms Office.

Work at the Opium Examination Hulk and the Customs Stations, however, will proceed as usual.

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CHAS. B. HICKS.......Manager. ROBERT LOVE,...General Agent. Hongkong, 8th April, 1892.

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NORTH BARRACKS. NDER INDER the Patronage of H.E. Major- General G. DIGBY, BARKER, C.B, Commanding H. M. Troops in China.

J. MCLEAVY BROWN, Commissioner of Customa for Kowloon & Dist.ct.

Custom House, Kowloon, 8th April, 1893, |

Intimations.

AN APOLOGY.

THE PROSECUTION OF THE OPIUM FARMER.

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BEG to express through your columns my deep regret that I should fa a basy moment, in consequence of my not being

able to read or understand Chinese accounts, have commenced a prosecution against Mr,. THEATRE, KOH CHENG SEAN, the chief maanger of the |late Oplum Farm, with reference to the fands of abe CHEANG TEK KONG SEE. A complete Investigation into the matter and a careful examination of the books and accounts have thoroughly convinced me that my suspicions were wholly groundless, and that there has been nothing whatever in Mr. KOH CHENG SEAN'S management of the business of the OPIUM FARM that is in any way repre-, bensibles and further, that he has all along been Commence at 9 p.m. precisely, dolog his bost, honestly and faithfully, for the

bencât of the CHEANG TEK KONG SEE(

THE "MILITARY MUMMERS"

WILL GIVE

A. PERFORMANCE

of Tom Taylor's Sensational Drama "THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN," TO-MORROW, the gth April, 189a, Doors open at 8.30,

PRICES OF ADMISSION, :— Reserved Seats........

First Seats.......

Second Seats......

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1,00 0.50 0.30

Tickets may be obtained at all Officers' and Sergeants Messes frous Sergt. Major Meredith, and all Colour and Company Sersa-Major, or as the door on the night of the performance.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN I Hongkong, 7th April, 1832

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

FOR KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL THE Company's Steamship

To square the Press," I suggested. You've hit it, my boy. Now, I know a man who will do the trick beautifully for us." (Phillips was always knowing men who would do some thing or other. I subsequently learnt that be made a bit himself out of all these odd jobs).

This useful peron lived somewhere in West right people to approach with a view to "getting I asked for particulars, and Atkins told me all things in. Some of the small struggling papers I required, and showed me a plan, I kept the were only too glad to insert whole columns des papers, and, saying that I thought I knew criptive of the sich gold-bearing rects in South someone who might be inclined to entertain the Afilca, and more especially that wonder of won- matter, asked him to call the following day.

ders, the Eyesore Reef, on consideration that That evening I ran across the very man I we took a few hundred copies. Others wanted wanted in the Criterion grill-room. He was a distinct promise of a page or hall-page adver mixed up in company business, and knew every sement when the company came out, whilst Lack of South Africa, for he had floated a score

ona or two not only demanded advertisements, of African minar, including the Tum Tum Reels, but also a payment of £50 for a tiny paragraph Pumpkins, Limited, the Sausage-and-Mashed of ten lines of type. Five pounds a line is Consols, and others equally well-known to fame rather dear, but the paragraphs did me a lot of a frauds of the very Anest and first water. We good, for we soon heard people talking about the had a "amall bottle," and 1 showed him the plass, Eye-sore, and that was what we wanted. There He looked at them carefully and then said, was one financial organ-I won't particularise "How much does your friend want for the land which had the effrontery

& whole for a £100 hesitation, and in a very firm and decided tone short article, 10 for two of voice, he said, "You buy it, my boy, and I'll pordents apropos of the Eye-sore, another 10 help you to put it into a company. We ought for a couple of paragraphs, and an allotment of Cat to make a goodish bit out of it, both of us, for 100 fully-paid see that it is only ball-a-dozen mijes from the Bat we cheerfully did the nerife sum, wasn't it?

to insist upon &

Another

In Mauritius, the Unofficial members of the named the price, and without a moment's { page adverisement (100) swers to Corm

Council of Government are in the majority; and It will be seen that, as a united phalanx, they voted as one man against the measure for an facreased Military Contribution, throwing cut the Bill.

The Procureur-General proposed the second | Water-cress Reef, which has been paying 15 reading of Ian Ordinance to provide for the paye per cent, ever since it started."

But half-a-dozen miles ment of a military contribution by the Colony of Mauritius for the years 1891, 1893 and, 1894. He said that it was their duty to vote, this amount, because was asked for by Her Majesty's Government.

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Philips Laurbed, "Oh, you ain't up to maff, for the purpose. I placed in their bands |

REGISTER,

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did the needful for that article, hoog... those paragraphs did us a world of good,

Bellano Kala Well, the company was advertised by Fishey Cape St. Jo & Co.

who bad

afterwards learnt that they dear boy, We won't tell people it's half-a-dozen only spent 46,000 of that sum, so they cleared a malls, you bet. In the prospectus well state the nice profit of 44,000, together with the must 15 distance and to klompes, or decimals, or some per cent, which they squeezed out of the hapless Colonial Secretary, seconded

nobody will understand, and they'll newspapers: Moreover, it subsequently trans said the Governor had done all that was think it's next door to the Watercress Reef. The pized that this honest firm had aboved the possible in order Kaye, the amount is per cent, will have to be starred in hig type advertisements to all sorts of obscure papers, of this contribution reduced. He had considered and red ink, and if that don't fetch 'em, I don't which was, of course, so much money wasted. advertisements, on all points the representations of the know what will. You buy the land, dear boy, Well, what with good notices and

every blessed share was applied for. We allotted Inhabitants, who bad, pointed out that the and then come to me."..

ourselves I took his advice and bought the land, giving the bulk of the founders' shares to Colony was not in position to increase

Amount of the contribution, but all Alkins bil more than besked, Just for the and our personal friends, and also approp:lated Heeg efforts had not completey succeeded, and Her sake of old times, don't you know. Then the good lump of the ordinary stick. - An office Majesty's Goverment had asked what the figure property belsooked alter by solicitor, Mr. machinery was shipped out to the mine, Philips taken, and then began the fun. Some mor fized by the Council, should be legcased. His basiness being hoped

that the Counc would give the Govern-Markby, whom Phillips Introduced to me as a supplying it at 50 per cent profit, and we got ment a fresh proof of fis loyalty, as it had done real scorcher, and no mistake,” And that I leports from time to time announcing progressi ender the administration, of

of Sir John Pope found him to be. The wonder to me is that he The directors met, drew their fees, had splendid Hennessy.

has existed so long without being struck off the Juncheons, and

eightoca.penny smoked

cigars Mr. H. Leclerio said that they had often given rellay but either the Incorporated Law Society Then one finedaythere came a glowing cablegram excellent proof of loyalty, bot that it could not is very blind, or bis deluded clients singularly from the mine. It was published in the parera, he expected to see them yote sums "hich they mild-mannered and forgiving, for thus las zo and up went the shares like a rocket. Phillipa were not in a position to give. He drew one has called him to account, and if he only and I sold out like wildfire, and prices fell, bat picture of the general situation of the colony lives long enough he ought to have no difficulty only for a short me, for it was announced in which was very gloomy By the fault ofthe whatever in qua

pesan kepanekspeder an pescent, for the current year. This gord Imperial Government, Mauritius found: Real Hater to qualifies for a very front seat in the papers that the Watercress Reef had comed In the impossible position of contending against Wall, Markby saw the thing through, and did | news had a distinctly beneficial effect on our European "sugas," "If England had unpisted Lad| the business cheaply not for love, bless you, Mack (for you will remember that "be Eye-sora

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Captain J. B. Macmillan, will be despatched for the above Parts, on SUNDAY, the 17th instant, at Daylight,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GEO. R. STEVENS & Co.,

Agents,

Hongkong. 6th April, 1801.

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BOXING TOURNAMENT.

BOXING TOURNAMENT AMATEURS

.I should be obliged if you would insert this letter in your correspondence column ence, and afterwardsias an advertisement for the period of one month, as I am suxiène to undo as far sa possible any injury I may have, through my hasty and unjustifiable action, inflicted upon Mr. KOK CHENG SEAN.

Your's truly,

OH TEK LEONG, Hongkong, aand March, 1892.

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MOUTRIE ROBINSON & Co.

HONGKONG,

(London, Shanghat, Kobe and Yokohama).

A will take place on SATURDAY, HAVING fitted more extensive, Workshops

April, 1897, when TWO SPLENDID SILVER CUPS will be given for Light-weights, not exceeding to stone, and Heavy or Catch-weighis respectively.

These Competitions will be open to Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians of all Nationalities.

QUEENSBERRY rules will be strictly adhered

to

with every appliance suitable to our business wa

are now able to ensure the prompt return of spy PIANOS or ORGANS entrusted to

REPAIRS OR REBUILDING;

We guarantee all our work to be equal to t

Intending Competitors will oblige by sending in their entries on or before SATURDAY, 9th April, addressed to "CORINTHIAN," cafe ofjihe Hongkong Telegraph. Office, enclosing fea of $1.00, which will be returned if entry is not done in England.

accepted,

Time and place of competition will be duly anabounced, and the Cups,

be on exhibition

abostly.

Hongkond

7th April. Bos

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