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THE PUNJOM MINING CO., LIMITED.
The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises the receipt of the following re- port for July from Mr. Blamey, the manager at the mines:-
August Shaft 200 ft. Level-Fairly good pro- gress has been made in driving on the course of Gillies' reef and I am pleased to say the quality of ore has improved, until to-day it is worth fully 8 dwts.
3. per ton by assay. I fear the ore is re- fractory, however, as but little free gold can be got by washing.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
[August 29, 1895.
CORRESPONDENCE.
expressed by our Correspondents]
see us through the next year, a thing we could never before carry out.)
Labour. The sapply of this, so far as Malays We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions for surface work is concerned, is fairly plentiful, but owing to the higher rate of wages paid by a neighbouring company we have lost about 200 Chinese mining coolies during the past month, This may soon right itself, however.
Health. This is now fairly good. Rainfall for the month was 5 inches.
HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
SCOTLAND V. THE WORLD.
THE BANK RATE AND DIVIDENDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS. SIR, AS all the Banks in the East ha reduced the rate of interest on fixed deposits to 4 per cent., incomes will in consequence be very much reduced. Is it not reasonable to expect in the near future quarterly dividends !
Is the following calculation correct P
$1,000 at 5 per cent. = $50 per annum. $1,000 at 4 per cent. = $40
per annumr
We have commenced the crosscut to go out
This match was played on Wednesday, the to the new shaft, and hope to see it to its destina-21st inst, and resulted, much to general astonish-
Loss to investor $10 tion by the end of the coming month.
ment, in a defeat for Scotland. On paper Scot.
or 20 per cent. land seemed to have very much the best of it, With less to pay out, undoubtedly a larger divi- but such are the peculiarities of the game that dend than £1 5s. Od. will in future be made by The new shaft has connected and the cham. public form was completely upset. At one time the IT. & S. B. C.-Yours faithfully, I
Intermediate 150 ft. Level. The various drivages and stopes here continue to furnish the bulk of the ore milled and are without change.
ber or "plat" has been prepared and sub stantially timbered. We are now waiting for the ground below this level to drain, when sinking will be resumed to connect with the 200 ft. level. I hope to see trucks and cages at work on this shaft at no distant date, and the August Shaft almost, if not entirely, relieved of hauling. Of course you are aware that the collar of this shaft is on a level to command our stone breakers at the mill; hence the ore will be delivered direct as it comes from below and without a second hauling.
110 ft. Level. The preparations we were mak- ing at date of my last report for beginning a cross out to go out to intersect Gillies' Reef having been completed, a start was made in the early part of the month, but I regret to say that after driving nine feet a body of water broke on us, which completely drove us out of the place. In fact, it almost drowned us out of the mine for two days. It has now drained off considerably and I am in hopes of soon being able to resume driving. As the source of this water is evidently a small swamp near the works; I am now cutting a deep ditch where practicable, and driving a tunnel where the depth is too great for a ditob, which I hope will thoroughly drain this swamp and so prevent any water from it from finding its way into the mine, This work will cost about $600, but if my expectations are realized it will pay for itself in a few months.
After five
the greatest excitement reigned. couples had finished, the game stood all square, but Messrs. Ram and Hawkins brought up the score for the World with a rush, and the side finished twelve hales to the good.
The greens were in very good order, but the greatest trial to the local golfer is the long grass between the holes. It is said that "one tea spoonful of sand will spoil a shot," and we might add to that "or one blade of Hongkong grass." It requires a strong man to slash his way along from hole to hole. The advantage of this is the exercise! If it were not for the courtesy of the "watchman" in the Happy Valley the going would be difficult indeed. The golfers of Hong- kong are grateful to him and his small staff of two men with soythes.
The following is the score:--
SCOTLAND.
Dr. J. A. Lowson
Mr. G. Stewart Mr. H. L. Dalrymple Capt. A. J. Ferguson. Capt. J. M. Stewart...... Mr. W. A. Duff. Mr. F. Maitland
Mr. J. Thurbarn
WORLD.
0 Capt. W. V. Ecclea
4. Mr. L. Saunderson.....
0
0
Mr. C. Palmer.....
0 Mr. E. A. Ram
0
Mr. W. M. Thompson. 0
0
Mr. C. Hawkins........
2
Mr. C. H. Grace..
0
Dr. J. Bell
4
6
MR. BRADY'S CONCERT.
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SHAREHOLDER. Yokohama, 14th August, 1895.
MEMORIAL TO THE KUCHENG
VICTIMS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS. SIR, I have just received a letter from Foo- chow stating that it is proposed to erect a memorial to the missionaries lately massacred at Whasang, near Kucheng, over their graves in the Foochow Cemetery, and also to place s Tablet to their memory in the British Episcopal Church at Foochow. The design of the memorial has received the approval of those most in- terested. The cost is estimated at $1,000. Sub- scriptions are limited to one dollar. I shall be glad to receive this small sum from anyone desirous of subscribing, opening an account in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on behalf of Hwasang Memorial Fund.
J. S. BURDON,
Bishop.
Hongkong, 24th August, 1395.
THE LING-CH'IHING OF CHINA,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS. SIR,-Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweet- ness and light, and, as is the writer of the article under the above heading in your Saturday's issue, a prophet of a human development higher than the so-called Christian civilization, was Mr. G. G. Brady writes:-I have much wont to speak of some writers in terms such as: New Leader.-The drives and stopes on this pleasure in enclosing statement of receipts and "With their crippled sense of justice and their leader continue to give ore of very fair quality expenditure at my concert held on Saturday boisterous rejection of refinement, they approach for the mill, and have assisted greatly in the out-last at the City Hall. A cheque for $325, has the subject with rudeness and want of calm.” put of gold for the month, and I think it will been duly forwarded to the treasurer of the This criticism I think most readers will hold do this for some little time longer.
Kowloon Institute. May I ask you to publish | would be exactly applicable to the article I refer the statement in your valuable paper at the to. The writer gives clear evidence of ability to think and also of having within him the germs earliest opportunity.
of ability to express his thoughts; but at pre- c.sent-perhaps it results from that impetuous- 25.00 ness of youth which is often the best promise of 12.00
future greatness-he seems to allow himself to 50.00
be carried away by the exuberance of his own 10.00 11.50 verbosity. I fear that many will say that his 5.00 essay is not only rude but orude. To me it 41.95 reads like the work of a youth who thinks him.
8.80
self a man, 21.05 5.06
Gillies' Reef, Mill Gully Tunnel.--The North Drive here has become very poor and has evi- dently passed through the chute of payable ore. We shall continue it to test the ground still further north.
Total drivage for the month Ore mined.
made up as follows:-
KOWLOON INSTITUTE BENEFIT. 17th August, 1895.
To hire of theatre.
To hire of piano
144
632′ 6*
571 tons
To Rife Brigade Band
August Shaft...413 tons 10 cwts. Mill Gully
.112
New Leader...... 45
10
"1
*
Milling. This was carried on during 29 days with ten head of stamps crushing 600 tons of ore from the mine for a yield of 377 oz. 14 dwts. of smelted gold, which, together with 12 oz. 14 dwis. from the cyanide works and 3 oz. 14 dwts. bought from our tributers, will be shipped on the 5th inst. to our Singapore agents. The old twelve head of stampers have been taken down and we are re-erecting them on most sub- stantial foundations. New mortar boxes are being built here and worn and useless parts are being renewed from Singapore and stock. Alterations and improvements are being made wherever practicable; in fact, the whole general arrangement is being made to conform to the new ten head last put up. I hope to see this new work completed in about three weeks from date
· and an increased quantity of ore milled monthly
· în the near future.
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Cyanide Works.-The clean up from this took place early in the month, with results as already advised.
To doorkeepera
To flowers
To late tram
To printing and advertising
To refreshments
To commission on tickets (K. & W.) To sundries.. To coolie hire, &c To balance to Institute
17th August, 1895. By booking (K. & W.). By doors
He gives us a repulsive and very pre-Raphael- 8.61 ite picture of the Chinaman's physical structure 325.03 and habits. The Chinaman may have character- istics in common with the Hottentot and Aus- $524.00 tralian "black fellow" and he may be given to "assuming the position of rest most usual with $ 0.
the monkey," but I cannot admit that the fact 405.00 119.00 of his hair being black is sufficient proof that he is incapable of being regenerated without $524.00 being, as a nation, stabbed in the heart. Be- cause the not yet fully oivilized peasantry of the West of Ireland have mostly reddish hair, are we to say that no people with red hair are capable of self development? The tendency of the higher races is towards lighter hair, and I would even go so far as to say that amongst the mixed race of which the population of Great Britain and West Central Europe consists you may get generally some indication in the colour of the hair of the individual character. I have myself made it a matter of observation in Scot- land, where intermarriage between Celt and so common, that the Saxon or Scandinavian
The Treasurer of the Kowloon Institute begs to acknowledge with many thanks the sum of $325.03, being the proceeds of Mr. G. G. Brady's farewell entertainment on the 17th, handed over to the above Instituto.
At 5.30 a.m. on Monday morning, 19th iust., we learn from the Magasaki Express, while the steamer Quantuck was lying at anchor at Moji she was run into by the Shibata Maru, late the Moyune. The latter vessel was going astern at the time and struck the Quantuck on great majority of the children have quite light of the number 2 hair and the same thing will be observed in the port side abreast hold. The Shibata is stated to be practically England and America in cases where one parent undamaged, but the Quantuck was reported to be has dark and the other light hair, but to say that leaking and her cargo was being discharged to the dark haired races are incapable of self lighten her. She was to be surveyed by Mr. government seems to me a very hasty generaliza- Ellerton, Lloyds' Surveyor at Kobe, on the tion. The hair of the Japanese is quite as black and nearly as coarse as that of the Chinese, and
General-Every attention is given to work coming under this head. We are getting in stocks of firewood and mining timbers so as to be ready for the coming monsoon, and I am pleased to say we have now a stock of both on the mine and ready for carting such as Punjom never saw before. (Contracts for the supply of lime, charcoal, firewood, and general mining timbers have been and are being let, which will | 20th.
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