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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25 191Ỡ

the administration of the poor law. One result of all this is shown in anoiber clause in the re part of the 1833 Commission: At Boraash, in East Sussex, the surplus labourers were put up to auction and hired as low as ad, and, 3d por day, the rest of their maintenance being made.op

A. S: WATSON & CO., by the parish. The consequence was that the

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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

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CHEMISTS

INDUSTRIES OF HONGKONG.

4 SOLICITOR'S HUMOUR.

THEIR RISK AND DEVELOPMENT. (Specially Written for the "Hongkong Telegraph.")

AT THE SU AMARY, COURT, Before Mr. Justice Gomperis, Tuisha Judge, in the Summary Court this morning, Messi Bumsen, and Berblinger brought an acien against C. Ricon to recover the sum of $293 for goods sold and delivered. Mr. M. 1. D. Stephens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. P. W. Goldring represented the defendaut,

Mr. Stephens-The claim is for goods sold and delivered. The defendant has not chosen to take notice of repeated applications by the plaintif. My friend, I understand, waste an adjournment,

THE MONEY-LENDER AGAIN.

RICH AT $35 A MONTHL

SMOKING OPIUM,

ITS PREPARATION.

Annexed to the report of Mr. Frank Bowni, at the Summary Court, this morning, Prem composition, preparations and methods of Before Mr. Justice Gomperts, Puiene Judge, Government Analyst, on "Opium: its battre, Singh sued H. F. Teizil for $196, being amount dus under a promissory note. Mr. J. H.sumption, which was printed in our lasts. Gardiner appeared for the plaintiff while the su, is an appendix on the preparation of defendent appeared in person.

smoking opium. This is what Mr. BrownD writes

1 His Lordship (To the defendant)-What are

you?-A clerk,

What do you get 7-535 a month. Are you married? No.

THE TERMILION FACTORIES, farmers iurand off their regular bands in order to hire by auction when they wanted them.

It is a curious fact that ever since Hongkong "Parish employment" was another form of

was established as a British Colony, the in- dustry of vermilion making ba's made a home relief in those days. The "work" provided for itself on the island. The reason for this is was generally on the roads, with the idea of perhaps hot far to seek, for the fact is notorious inducing and enabling the paupers to God work that any prosperous industry such as this has for themselves. In many places, adds Prof, to suffer, heavy penalties in the direction of Smart, while the labour exacted was trifling, the taxes when carried on in Canton or in any His Lordship-The maal practice is to parish pay equalledorexceeded the average wage the Two Kwang. It was not to be won ship thinks that I have nothing more to say.

of the other densely populated cities" of } adjourn the case for one week.-If your 'Lord The money must be paid.. Do you want 10 yamber, 13, 1908, was, the, daily conversion of of the district, and wires of the few inde- dèred at, therefore, that the vermilion, mink» - If my friend is not prepared to go on, I will pay it by instalments?—Yes, ·

pendent labourers left were board' lamenting

His Lordship-But the case must be ad- farned?-As far as I can make l: viil at be added to the bill (Laughter),

ers of Kwangtung and Kwangal who had" "go on.

seek to transfer their businesses to the new Colony when the opportunity offered and they were assured of that liberty"" of tradal action which is part and parcel of all who claim allegiance to the British Fing

BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE that their husbands were not pauper If already felt the brunt of officialdom should

GOVERNOR AND HOUSEHOLD,

mas did not like his work, he would say: "I can have 12s, a week by going on the reads, and doing as little as I like." Without adequate supervision, this work turned into a farce; men who bastirred themselves a little were ridiculed

Watson's

HYGIENOL,

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BUBONIC

PLAGUE!

It has been proved by repeated experiments that WATSON'S HYGIENOL 'is the most potent agent for the destruction of fleas, especially rat ficus.

It has now been proved that Plague is „conveyed to buman beings by means of

from rats which have died of this dianase.

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́All risk of Infection can be avoided by washing the doors, etc., or sprinkling where the Beas are likely to be with a dilute solution of "WATSON'S HYGIENOLA tea spoonful to a pint of water, or a teacupful to three gallons, makes a solution of the strength required for this purpose. HYGIENOL IS A POWERFUL DISINFECTANT AND GERMICIDE

Price per Pint...

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50 cents

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You must have your l'as, a week or your 10s, a week, whether you work or not; I would not be such a fool as to work," etc.—and, andor these circumstances, they did anything but work. A general expression of opinion was that, whatever their personal character might be two years on the roads rùined the best of them.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. SIXTY-FOUR Chinese were banished from Singapore during January.

To the residents of Hongkong in general it not commonly known that this Colony now ranks as one of the biggest producers-if not this pigment is amongst the foremost of the the biggest-of vermilion. The manufacture of Colony's industries, although, owing to the scat tored mature of its' factories, the'ordinary dɓ- server would be slow to suspect as much.

As a matter of fact, there are some hundred or so. of vermilion making places to be found on the island of Hongkong and its hinterland of Kowloon, especially in the Yaumati district, and these absorb to a great extent the heavy im Broken Hill Mices in Australia. ports that are annually taken from the famous

Before being set up to Hongkong, the mercury-bearing ore is crushed and pulverised The gold exported from the F.MS. during and it is therefore in a position to compete as Jaboury amounted to 2,737 ounces,

DURING January Krina Estales produced 2,032 lbs and Sengal Estate 4,890 of rubber. A MAN was awarded six months' hard labour at the Magistracy this morning far returbing from banishment.

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COLONEL C. J. Long, Royal Artillery, of Colenso fanie, has been selected for the reward for distinguished and meritorious service. MR. VI HOAN-YONG, the Korean Premier, who was recently attacked and stabbed in Sesal, was able to leave the bospital do the 41

instant.

A STRITS Settlements, Sungei Ujong stamp, firat issue, over-printed with crescent, star, and „S.U. in oval, C., 2. brown, ifbused has fetched

L3 in London.

A. 8. WATSON & CO.,]TM rubber exports during January were as follows: Perak 132,961 Ibs, Selangor 525,814 lbs, and Negri Sembilan 111,968 lbs., making a total of 768,743′ibs, as against 345,593 lbs. Two coolies were given three and four weeks bard labour, respectively, with six hours' stocks throws in, at the Magistracy this morning for stealing a quantity of sugar from the Kowloon Godowes.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY

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KOWLOON DISPENSARY. Hongkong, and February, 19to,

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The Hongkong Celegraph

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The man C.J. Merchant, described as a money. changer, who was charged the niber day, at the stance of A. E. Casambhoy, his former pan ner, with falsifying a receipt, was this morning discharged by Mr. E. R. Hallifax, First Police Magistrate, Mr. M. R. Harris prosecuted and POOR LAW BLUNDARING. Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. Wilson, of

Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, defended. Some extraordinary stories of pauperism in. England seventy years ago, which have lisen A PEASANT named Novotui recently walked paarthed by Prof. Smart, are, given in a into the State Bank at Pragus and peremptori: volume of the memoranda submitted to the rely demanded the saving he had put in a week cent Poor Law Commission by individual before. When the money was paid out, be mambers, which was inued last month. Prof. with the explanation that he only wanted to counted it carefully, and than handed it back -Smart's review of the report. of the Poor Law see if it was still there. Novatui was nover a

Commission of 1832 provides some of the most really tactful man.

regards preparedness with the similar products may be said to have only one competitor in the that China itself and Japan can offer. Hongkong production of vermilion and that is. Holland, where, however, the process of manufacture is entirely different,

Vermilion is a brilliant scarlet pigment-com. posed of the sulphide of mercury. To a small

Mr. Goldring In justice to my client, I may say it was impossible for him to appear,

Mr. Stephens-He came for the Races rigăt

enough and bad to be served on board the boat (Laughter),

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The case was adjourned for a week,

RUBBER IN TROPICAL ASI.

Mr. John C. Willis, Director of the-Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, has an interesting account of the early stages of Asiatic rubber: growing in a recent issue of the ludia Robber World

The history of rubber culture in tropical Asia, he says, dates from 1875, when the authorities at Kew succeeded in convincing the Gov- arament of India that there were judications of a shortage In rubber supply, as there had been in regard to cinchona about 25 years earlier, and that it would be wise to get the rubber plants of South America estab the expense of the Indian Government, to the fished elsewherd. An expedition was sent,aï

valley of the Amazon, and succeeded in col lecting, among other things, seed of the so called Para rubber, Hevea Brasiliensis. These were grown at Kaw, and in 1876 the young plaats resulting were sent to the East in War.

in Ceylon, at Henaratgods, near, Colombo, to A special branch botanic garden was opened

receive the robber trees, and so were planted there, the remaing zo being, planted at the chief garden of Peradeniya near Kandy, at ao elevation of 1,600 feet about the sea, which has on the whole shown itself to be rather too great a height for rapid growth. About 1881 and 1882 the plants began to flower, and a few seeds (aod cuttings) were distributed, at first 'ro'other botanic gardens, and then to planters in the island who had expressed willingness to try the new cultivation. It is from these seeds or cuttings that the few old trees on such estate

Culloden in Ceylon bave sprung.

ex cat it is obtained direct from pura and bright-dian cases in charge of a special gardener coloured portions of the native are cinnabar: The bulk of the plants, came to Ceylan, it bay. but it is chiefly an artificial preparation. The ing been decided that India had no botanic process of manufacture consists in making garden in a suitable climate but a west to an intimate mixture of mercury with. about Sinpapere and elsewhere. ona-sixth of its weight in sulphur, and these, under the influence of a gentle heat, combice to a form a black sulphide of mercury called "althiop's mineral." In-successive portions, pieces of this composition are thrown into tell earthen pats, the lower parts of which are kept at a red heat and the mast su depositing a coating of artifical cinnabar di mau tron covers and over the upper parts of the pots themselves At the end of the subliming process the pots arg broken; the deposit of artificial cionabar, is craped off, ground in a mill, levigated, and when dry it is ready for use as vormilion. The pigment is also, prepared by the wet method and it is said that Chinese vermilion owes its superiority to being prepared in this war. In addition to its brilliance, vermilion is a pigment of great intensity, and durability, remaining:naofficied by acid fumes. Being costly, it is much subject to 'adulteration but the fraudulent additions may easily be detected by chemical tests, volatilisation in the case of Pure vermilion leaving no residuo,

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As an indication of how rapidly the new in- dustry is growing the figures of export from Coytou may be quoted :

1901...

1991 an 1903

1909 1906

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MILAYA. BEtter than CEYLON. “

To turn now to, other countries in the east,

The artificial preparation of vermilion is highly valued as the most brilliant, stable, and innocuous of all mineral red pigments.. Ver. milion is produced from black sulphide of mercury in two ways, first by sublimation, and, second by treatment in an alkaline solution, the one which has shown itself to be on the too parts of mercury are mixed with 38 parts whole the most favourable of all is the Federat- flowers of sulphur, and the mixture in digested

all the preparation has come up to there has been decidedly better than in Ceylon with constant agitation in a potash solutioned Malay States, a British protectorate lying bent of Singapore. The growth of rubber maximum of fire and brilliance, which taken a

and at the same time coffee, the only other good many hours.

The Chinese employ only the wet treatment planting industry of importance, has been lately

Have you a father and mother?-No. Have you any private means of your own? No.

How much can you pay a month ?-Five dollars.

If Lordship made an order for $5 a month. the first instalment to be das on the 1st of March.

Mr. Gaudiuer-Will your Lordship make an order for St a day?

der fra No. The defendant says that he draws $35 a month and that he will only be able to pay $g a mouth-He was able to sign a promissory note for over a hundred dollars. Probably he made reprosentations that he was a rich mah and was thus able to

obtain the money.

A rich man? Well, not exactly a rich man. but drawing Stoo or $200 a month.

For the present, unless any mis representa- tions on defendant's part can be proved, I can only give you $5 a month, I can give you leave to apply.—I ask for leave to apply."

The application was granted.

Mr. Gardinor-Will your Lordship ask the defendant to send the money direct to my office. It is a small sum and I can give him receipts for the amounts, it will save a lot of trouble to the Treasury and myself,“

His Lordship concurred.

PRISONÉR SUED.

AT THE SUMMARY COURT,

Before Mr. Justice Gomperz, Paisse fudge, at the Summary Court this morning, Mr. Wit 105, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, mes tioned a cute in which Messro, H. Ruttorjee and Son sued 'C.). Merchant to recover the sum of $145.

Mr. Wilson-1 nak for an adjɔuromènt, as the defendant is in prison.

His Lordship-Won't it be possible for you to see him ?--Oh yer, but it will be more con- venient if an adjournment is granted. The man is at present charged with forgery and the case comes on to-day.

The manufactura is commenced by piscing three balls of opium deprived of their outer coverings of leaves in a shallow circular cop per pan. Water is added and the mixture is | work. There are a large number of such fres heated over as open charcoal fire set in brick-

ar the capacity of the factory visited on No.

three chests of Bengal opium, each containing one picul or x334 pounds, into the finished ax. It will now be understood h tthethree chests En tract. Each ball weighs about four pounds. divided up amongst mber of past and a descrip ed. Aftersimmering for about an hour, stirring tios of the farther operations may be costing

being effected by means a copper

be quidbegins to adhere to the bottom of the pas, at which point the operator takes in:o use hatchet-shaped wooden stirrer which he' uses continuously and vigorously until an dongby mass of opium is left in the par. The "clistic operation to this stage has taken about two` hours. The pan is removed from the fre and the contents are knanded and beaten with a brass bowl for a few minutes, after which the comes a peculiar toasting process, which is vary mass is spread evenly over the pan. Now

importeat sed is very carefully done. The pan with tho. adhering opiam le inverted over the... fire, which has been covered, with a thin layer of ashes. After about a minute, the worker Is enabled to peel off a thin layer of opium, which may be heated. The very brittle layer (resem in farther dried on a gridiron so that both sides

bling dark coloured ginger put crackers) in then put into a larger coppar pan for the next treatment. Abóút xa layers are taken in this way from each batch of oplum, the peeling off of each being surprisingly easy.^ Ip this

TOASTING PROCESS

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the heat applied to the surface of the opium as determined by, a thermometer', was not above to°C. The layers in larger pan are broken up, water is poured in and left to Act till the next morning. A bunch pi tang Fam (lamp wick, the pith of some plast) is carefully inserted into the mass, so as to act both as a syphon and as a strainer. & clear dark coloured liquid drains off and is filtared through chi si or bamboo paper. The pan is tilted until only an insoluble residue re moins. To this residue is added boiling water and the liquid je then filtered through chì mui covered with a piece of calico to act as strainer. The water used is the wash water- of the previous day obtained as shown later on. Hot water is then put late the pan to clasa

His Lordship (To Me Ruttotį ta)~What do you say?-My Lord, i can't say what defend ant is going to do. He might leave the Colony.it, and this liquid is used to wash the There is no doubt about that,

Sifers. These two washings together with Hi Lordship-1 adjours the case for ahe original filtrate obtained by means of the "week.

Plaintif Thank you, my Lord,

ARAILWAY DISASTER.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,

langsam are put into the larger shallow pane and are ripidly boiled down over charcoal firas setia brickwork: Another washing of the residue with plain water containing no opium is performed, and this wash water is put into a very large copper receiver and in gra-, dually boiled down separately in several pans.. When concentrated fairly low. Enis last waihing - is, put into the smaller shallow paos and allowed to cool and settle, after which the clear Sinyanchón, Feb. g. i quid is poured off into the pans contaicing, Writing from Sloyatiebow on gik iost, the the filtrates enumerated above and which are N. C. D. Non correspondent reports-Abeing boiled down. There is still a little opium left in the residues on the filters, so another terrible accident happened here a few days washing with plain water is given and this is

ago at a small station, Lichiatsai, fifteen miles to the sath on the Hankow Peking Railway, It has been difficult to get any reliable informa- view eye-witnesses, but the following will give tion about it, as I have had no chance to inter.

you the main facis.

used for the next day's wash purposes,

THE RESIDUES.

Interesting. One form of outrelief to the able-A Los Angeles despatch of 22nd, ult. says:- in making. vermilion, and there is no doube Da very unprosperous condition. The country, backward 100. Now it sá happened that an- -bodied, he says, took, the form of exemp. A mixed quartelte of babies--two boys and two' that Chinese,vermilion as exported from Hear. volike Ceylon or Java, bas vast areas of unde, other south-b und freibt also bad left Sinyang interior of the pan from time to time to prevent "

kang is more highly valued than any that

emanates from the Continent of Europe.

tion from rates. This led to great speculation in building small tenements of the worst type which yielded the owner areas heightened by the exemption. To a great number of cases the parish papper's rent was paid out of the parish fand Paupers thus became a very desirable class of tenants! For instance, one person obtalped io cottages from a landlord at a yearly rental of £18, and relet them separate. ly for 50-mostly to propers. astonishing kind of relief described as "relief A COMPLETE change of programme will be given at the Salon-Cinema Theatre to-night. The show 'continues to draw good houses in spite of the incleatient weather. The artistes Misses Adu King, Ruby Crystal and Mr. Carl

girls-arrived last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wilson in this city, making twelve The Wilsons were married in Chicago twenty children born to this couple in nine years, five years ago. After their first child was born there was, d'interval of sixteen years. Then but as twin girls arrived, followed two years later by triplets. Four years ago another set of triplets made their appearance.

Daly seven of the children are living, including the four ushered into the world last nights.

Another

without labour," says Prof. Smart, acted as a #bounty on idleness and crime.". When this type of relief was granted the applicants were

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werd.

paration followed by the Hongkong manufac the unaccustomed eye, the methods of pre turers might appear crude and primitive,

it happens the Chinese making artificial cinnabar long before Europa. had become a civilised country; and to this day there are trade secrets in the vermilion indestry which on European yet has been able

to fathom.

Chinese vermilion factory is Moogkektsui or Even if one cho penetrate the recesses of a Shaukiwan, one will still be left reflecting that there is something in the manufacture which has been left unexplained...

veloped forest land which is of all others the best suited for rubber. Under these favouring

largest exporting country. Not only so, but rapidly and the Malay States are by far the circumstances the industry bas progressed very

capital has been more readily forthcoming for

sabbar enterprise.

Java is handicapped like Ceylon by very large existing industries, which take up most of the available land, but on the other band has a great advantage in unlimited and very cheap

Java will same day be an important producer and there are not wanting indications that labour, while the trees grow very well indeed,

of rubber.

Sumatra and Borneo are also being taken

are then dried and sold to persons who extract ching ko and is bought by the Opium Farmer yet a little more epiam. The oplum extract so resulting from, these sold residues in'known for making dross opium extract. This'cking ko

steep grade near Lichiamai. As the people on sitered through chi mi and the fitrate of this Several cars of a south-bound freight train contains no morphine. When the filtrates became detached while running up quite a

have boiled down sufficiently, and while still- of the consistents, of a thin liquid, they are those cars evidently knew nothing about pat-boiled down to the required concentration, ting on the brakes, they very soon started on a

Any scum that may have a tendency to creep over the side of the pin is kept down by meanY, of a goose's feather, and water in sprinklad on the.. the 'ormation of any dry extract. The paus are fanned from start to finish to assist evaporation,.

consistence the pans are removed from the and boiling is maintained as vigourously as it can be without causing the liquid to boll DELT. When judged to be of the proper file and the opium extract is stirred and fanned with great vigour till cold. It is then weighed and sent to the Opium Farmer's depot as prepared opiam, smoking opiam, opium ax- tract-or chandap. This smoking opium is a black treacly substance, having a fragrant opium-like odour characteristic of a good pra paration from good ingrediente, d

Throughout the process.nothing whatever is

about this time, and the result was a fatal col- lision between this train and the runaway cars,

that seventeen persons were killed and a great The engine of the former was talescaped into the latter. Some say that ten, others many, wounded. Among the dead were several soldiers and a military official. Some of them ware so mutilated that they could not be identified, and the head of one body could not be found.

The reason for this great loss of life in that

"sit on the shipment to its destination, a's one in his place, must buy a ticket and "ya"- when goods are shipped, the owner or some

the railroad assumes no responsibility what ever. Every freight train consequently carries

merely required to give up a portion of their Walloer, the well-known comedian-appear done by machinery, whereas here in Hong. and other far eastern islands will probably be.

lo Holland the preparation is almost wholly as rubber countries, especially the former scores of passengers beside the freight.

employed sooner or later.

PLANTING IN INDIA,

time during which they were expected to remain in a gravel-pilt or some other enclosure; or they

·were directed to sit at a certain spot and do half price. The public'will be pleased to know Gueness of flour might almost bo described as in the north have failed, but a considerable ment appraisor at the land office, Forbes, mat i

nothing! In other districts there was a system of **"make up" allowances, by which the labourers' meagre wages ware supplergented by Poor-law relist. 'At Old Swinford, for instance, "allow ances of the family were 251, a weok !". Voder the "ronademen" system of relief the parish sold pauper labour to iba occupier of property at a certain low price, and made up the difference between that sum and the scale allowance. Sometimes the pauper labour was sold to the farmers at auction, and a Northamptonshira casa is quoted in which "a lot of ten man were knock. ed down to one of the farmers for five shillings." In another astonishing instance it is recòidéd that in 1821 the overspers had been in the -habit of-sharing out the proper labourers amongst the farmers (including themselyes), and of paying for the work done by them whol ly out of the poor rates. Evidently they had John Burna In thosa'days to keep an eyuen

A.Kocha Esq...........

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To turn to India, experiments with Hevea area is now planted with this tree in the ontberg part of the Madras presidency, Growth is apparently slower than in Ceylon but there are great advantages in regard to plentiful and cheap labour.

with new songs and dances, To-morrow and kong, everything is accomplished by manual Sunday afternoon matince performances will labour. Some of the granite mill-stones be- be given, ben children will be admitted tween which the pulverised ore is ground to the that the management have secured a re-ad. pre-historic. There is one man to each mill and gegensent of Miss Duris MacAuley. She leaves his is a strenuous (ask. As the mixture is ground, Manila for Hongkong in a few days' time and the liquid solution that accompanies the pro- will probably appear at the. Salon next week,cess is constantly added to and the precipitats THE Hod. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial.

comes out of the drying.coppers a pore red and Affiliated Hospitata boga to acknowledge

colour.

At the time of this writing, it is probable with thanks the following donations to the product that the Chinese are 10 secretive re-

Perhaps it is owing to the 'value of the that about 400,000 acres in tropical Asia' funds of the Mospitals:

are planted with. Baven · Brasiliensin. Thlo garding their methods of metafacture, but one means, in the course of the text seven or eight ceases to wonder about the care they exercise years, a production of about 40,000 to 50,000 when one witnesses the extreme exictitude tons of clean rubber, or a good deal more than that is observed at the finished material, is half of the world's present total production. weighed out in minute scales and packed up

Add to this the fact that during the present Into microscopic parcels, ready for expert, out-

boom rubber companies are being floated al rivalling all the vermilions, which the best most daily, that tropical America and Africa brains of European chemistry can produce.

baye a fair amount of robber planted, that it is improbable that the wild rubber of Bouth THE Nippon Yasen Kaisha, which recently America will be driven off the market for a long sold six of its older steamers, has now disposed time to come, and that there are also consider. of four olbers, which have been bought by Mr. | abla areas planted in other kinds of rubber, and Harada Jaliro, of Osaka ---The steamers-now it is evident that it will not be very many years told are the Ryojus-waru, Ninam-maru, Kogo. before rubber is cheap and now uses for it may

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A PATHETIC fatality occurred a Kiacaton Station, New South Wales, when Charles Ros- soll Street, son of Frederick Street, Govern. bis death. He was conveying the news to Mr. S. Waite of the death of his father-in-law, and when within 150 yards of Waite's house was struck dead by lightning which also killed the horse be was riding. Deceased had volunteer. ed to take the cows to Mr. Waite. Truly an errand of death, /^^d

The directors of the Straits Settlements (Ber m) Rubber Company, Limited, have decided to submit to the abareholders, the question of dividing the capital into shares of 2s, each, and a meeting was called for February 1, for that purpose. It is also proposed to take authority 10 increase the capital to £100,000. There is ample working capital available for the require ments of the present cultivated" fren, but the directors, in view of the large acreage available, consider it would be well to continue to gradu ally extend the area pader rabber, thereby fur. ther increasing the value of the property! Such new capital would be offered; when required, to the shareholderu pro esta.

last.

THE OPIUM COVERINGS that contain opium are pat on one side and are twice boiled out with water, and the liquid so rasalting is used to soak the opium at the coma msacement of the first operation. Aftowards a....... third extraction is made and this water is used for the preparation of dross opium extract,

DROSS OPIUM EXTRACT.. This is prepared by taking 13 parts of opium

of dress opium extract, and a parts of king ko. dress or residues from the smoking of chandos, *13 parts of Aalam or residust from the smoking-

put into boiling water in large shallow pass, The last substance and the dross oplum ara and the Aries is put into boiling water, in tions are filtered after holling, and the filtrates larger pant of cylindrical.abaps. The solo are evaporated in the aballow pass, the se siduos are bolled ep twice more, and their filtrates are evaporated as before, and when of the same manner as was seen in the prepars the proper consistence are' allowed to cool in tios al condos. The long boiling seemed to get rid of certain impurities as the odour at the end was considerably lessened and improved. brown solid having a less pronounced adent Dross opium extract is a fairly bard dark. than the ordinary extract. When sent out it is softened by means of a water bath, weighed into the pieces which are softened agalu under pan of hot charcoal, stamped in divisions, put into a pot for salespeop and each stamped portion is then cut off, and

was observed, and all the utensils, wern- keptas Forall the operations, the greatestcleanliness scrupulously class. All the coolies seamed" and, cheerful a set of workman an' bag, bona most industrians and were as healthy looking observed in any livegkong industry,