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London and North Western Railway Co. Con- solidated 4 per cent. preference stock, £3,737.10 Great Western Railway Co. 4 per cent. €1,899.15 debenture stock... Great Western Railway Co. dł per cent. de-
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£3,180 ..£2,139.4.7
India 3 per cent. stock, 1931
Chinese Imperial Government E loan of 1888 Mortgages on real estate at Shanghai,
Cash at bankers on fixed deposit.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
centage of water as one of the constituents of milk was 83. Certainly he must have some authority for his belief, whether he took it from 104,520.16
a book or evolved it from his scientific con- sciousness, but it may be not uninteresting to a 20,628.97 very considerable section of the community to know that they may safely take Mr. Crow's opinion with at least 6 per cent. of salt. In his "Manual of Dairy Work," James Muir, M.R.A.C., etc., Professor of Agriculture in the Yorkshire College, Leeds, says, "Cow's milk of 29,450.12 average quality is found to have the following 19,811.50 composition 95,308.22 219,883.01
34,618.17
17,538.11
333,976.46
Cash at bankers on current account...
98,598.08
Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd. 6 ́ per
cent. debentures of 1890
87,671.23
Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd. 6 per
cent. debentures of 1894
Shanghai Municipal 5 per cent. debentures
of 1892.
of 1895
Shanghai Municipal 5 per cent. debentures
Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Co. 6 per
cent, debentures...
Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ltd. 5 per cent.
debentures
37,671.23
26,426.03 7,609.59
33,150.69
Shanghai Cargo Boat Co., Ltd. shares...
13,698.63 6,917.81
Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Co. shares...
21,575.34
S. C. Farnham & Co., Ltd. shares
6,369.86
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock. Co., Ltd.
shares......
23,343.75
Boyd & Co., Ltd. shares
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.
shares......
Co-operative Cargo Boat Co., Ltd. shares...
North-China Insurance Co., Ltd. shares......
Policy stamps at agencies
Head office and London furniture
Due by agencies, premia in course of collec-
tion, and sundry outstandings..........
308.22 447.62 2,890.23
112,529.86
$1,821,027.48
CORRESPONDENCE
Water Nitrogenous matter Fat Sugar Ash
87 per cent.
3.7 3.9
39
11
4.7 0.7
IT
He also states that "under varying conditions the proportion of water may range from 83 to 90 per cent."
The following table.gives the results of a series of experiments with cream separators carried out at the Yorkshire College under Professor Muir's direction and on behalf of the County Council of the West Riding:
Total Solids. Fat,
12.30
11.90
12.23
11.80
Water.
(3.89)
87.70
(3.28)
88.10
(3,57)
87.77
(3.27)
88.20
6,506.85
In face of the published utterances of so 2,000.00 eminent an authority as Professor Muir I 7,602.74 fancy Mr. Crow would encounter some difficulty in convincing the public that milk which con. tains 89 per cent. of water must so certainly have had water added to it to the extent of 6 per cent, that he is warranted in making that declaration on his oath. And if it is not an accepted scientific fact that milk contains 83 per cent. of water, neither more nor less; if, on the contrary, authorities before whose opinion even that of Mr. Crow must give way declare that "the proportion of water may range from 83 to 90 per cent., for what offence has Mr. Kennedy been
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.]
SCIENTIFIC OR MILK-AND-WATER EVIDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS."
SIB, The conclusion arrived at by your correspondent "Innocent" in the recent pro- secution for alleged adulteration of milk is similar to that of nine-tenths of the community, official and unofficial alike. There can be no doubt that a mistake was made by Mr. Crow, not in finding 89 per cent. of water in the milk analysed by him, but in declaring upon his oath that milk which contains 89 per cent, of water must, as a matter of scientific and incon- trovertible fact, contain added water to the extent of 6 per cent. In other words, Mr. Crow asserted upon his oath as a scientist that milk contains 83 per cent. of water and no more, and upon this sworn statement, and upon it alone, Mr. Kennedy was convicted of wilfully diluting his milk with 6 per cent. of water. In a case of milk adulteration just recorded at home, the judge of the higher court before whom the Sanitary authorities car ried the case refused to convict, on the ground that the analyst's certificate speci- fied only the quantity of added water and did not give the total percentage of water in the milk. The judge held that it was for him, net the analyst, to say whether, having before him the quantities of the several constituents found in the milk, water had been added or not, and that the quantity of added water was not a factor in the case.
From Mr. Crow's evidence it would appear that the percentage of water in this case was 89, and from this Mr. Crow deduces the in- ference that 6 per cent, of water must have been added. The public therefore have it on Mr. Crow's authority that it is a scientifically demonstrated and universally admitted fact that milk contains 83 per cent. of water, no more, no less; and that if it contains more it is due to some agency other than the cow.
The Magistrate accepts this scientific testi- mony as if it were an established fact, and Mr. Kennedy is promptly convicted and heavily fined. Your correspondent opines that Mr. Crow read in a book that the correct per
CONVICTED?
Hongkong, 8th April, 1896.
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his criticism of the vaccine manufactured in Japan.-Very truly yours,
A. NAKAGAWA.
P.S.-I am in no way connected with the vaccine firm, but if you will get the above inserted in the Hongkong papers I shall be very much obliged.
Dr. J. A. Lowson.
THE ODD VOLUMES SOCIETY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS.’ SIE,--May I venture to ask through your columns how long the above Society is going to retain its absurd and misleading title? The name "Odd Volumes " is not in the least indica- tive of the real objects of the Society, and I sincerely trust that at the next annual meeting, or before if possible, the members will see the advisability of making an alteration. The name "Odd Volumes" strongly suggests a bundle of old musty books which can be picked up for a mere trifle from a second-hand bookseller. One amongst them might by chance be a valu- able volume, but the others are cheap and nasty. Surely, sir, this cannot be the case with the Odd Volumes Society. Of course if it is, let the title remain; if it is not, then it ought to be changed, as truth is not in it. I have not been very long in the colony, but from the little I know of the members I am inclined to think that they are far from being a set of men amongst whom only a stray one here and there can be said to possess some- thing more than mediocre abilities. Why in the first instance the members chose the childish, undignified, and untruthful title I cannot conceive, and I am quite certain a casual visitor to the colony would not imagine, on hearing the title, that the Society is a purely literary Society, possessing members of con- siderable attainments. "The Hongkong Liter- ary Society" would not only be a correct title but a title of becoming dignity. It may be asked "What's in a name?' There is some- thing very objectionable in a name which carries with it a distortion of the truth and a slight on the English language.-Yours very truly,
A MEMBER.
Hongkong, 11th April, 1896.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS. SIR,—As a consumer of milk from Mr. Ken-
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS, nedy's Dairy, I should be very happy to see an
SIB.-Disorder is the elemental cause of dirt analysis of a sample of milk taken from one of and disease, of distress in its many forms, of his cows, in the presence of unbiassed witnesses. discord and dissensions; it is both the cause and This would surely put an end to any doubt that the effect of ignorance and ill. Human pro- may exist as to the purity of the milk supplied to gress simply means the attainment of better his customers, and perhaps might satisfy both order, for order is Heaven's first law. - From "Innocent" and "Convicted." I am surprised the civilizing of the savage to the civilization Mr. Kennedy has not already taken this course.of this close of the nineteenth century it is only
Yours faithfully,
SKIM-MILE.
Hongkong, 9th April, 1896.
DR. CANTLIE AND JAPANESE VACCINE LYMPH,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS, SIR-I desire you to publish the accom- panying letter from Dr. Nakagawa concerning certain sweeping and unfair statements made by Dr. Cantlie about Japanese vaccine lymph. I would add that we have received considerable supplies from Dr. Takaki and have always had the most satisfactory results.Yours truly,
JAMES A. LOWSON. Government Civil Hospital, 9th April, 1896.
(Enclosure.)
Tokyo, Japan, March 13th, 1896. My dear Sir, I understand Dr. Cantlie on leaving Hongkong made some remarks on Japanese vaccine lymph and qualified them as being "abominable." As there are several vaccine firms in Japan it is very probable that Dr. Cantlie was in possession of lymph of inferior make which deserved his censure. Fearing, however, that careless people might be led astray on this question I wish to make it known that there is a vaccine firm belonging to the Sanitary Society of Japan with Dr. Takaki at its head. Dr. Takaki conducts the firm under Dr. Kitasato's supervision, so that I am sure there can be no question as to the quality of the lymph manufactured there, and Dr. Cantlie, were he in possession of the same vaccine, would have been less generalising in
a dispersal of disorder, and the more orderly we are the nearer we approach to the life of the
Gods. The man of disorderly habits is but very partially civilized; all that can be said for him being that he is fortunate in living among more or less civilized beings. The first principle of order is "a place for everything and everything in its place," and odd volumes are not in their place. Men who glory in being odd volumes glory in their shame.
I am not a member of "The Odd Volumes," although the original Secretary did me the honour of asking me to put down my name. The Society would probably have gained nothing and I might possibly have gained little, but still I might have joined, although some of the original members, and it may have been some of the promoters, might have been described in the words of your correspondent of this morn- ing as "cheap and nasty; "that is, one or two were men very generally disliked and were suspected, rightly or wrongly, of helping to get up and of using the Society for self-adver- tising purposes. That element, if ever it
existed, has, I trust and believe, now been eliminated and I sincerely wish the Society every prosperity. As I have said, I might have joined as an original member, but the name, which your correspondent rightly terms childish and undignified, was too repellent; it gave rise to a feeling of disgust; I had almost said contempt. At the least it indicated disorder, and that is the very thing which one would suppose such a society constituted for the purpose of fighting. As that feeling influenced me it may have in- fluenced others. At any rate that is why I am
NOT A MEMBER, Hongkong, 13th April, 1896.
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