September 2, 1899 ||
ZULU MINE. The main shaft has been sunk a further depth of 4 feet. In order to underhand stope. profitably it is necessary to keep the shaft going down with the stopes No 1 stope has been carried south of main shaft on the reef 25 feet by a depth of 5 feet. No 2 stope 8 feet by a depth of 8 feet.
No. 1 stope north of main shaft is 1 foot long by 4 feet deep. The reef is about 10 inches wide and should not yield less than 25 dwts. per ton. I estimate the quantity of stone to be 30 tons.
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CALEDONIAN MINE.
The poppet legs are erected over the new main vertical shaft, but it will take about an- other fortuight to put on the deoking, etc., and complete them. The main drive north at the bottom of the old main underlie shaft has been extended 5 feat The reef in the face is 3 feet wide and prospects about 6 dwts per ton. So far we have only done repairs and prospected the old workings. I hope to be able to report more fully on this mine in a few weeks' times.
The mines are now in fairly good working order. Of course a lot of preparatory work had to be done at all the mines so as to try and break the stone as cheaply a" possible.
TANJONG PAGARD CK CO,
The Directors in their report for the half year ending 20th June. 1899 The reconstruc- tion of the company has beeu carried out in conformity with the special resolutions of the shareholders, and the present company which was incorporated on 1st August, 1899, has taken the name and business of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, the shareholders in the present company receiving two shares for each share held in the old company. The reconstrnc- tion has caused no interference with the or- dinary business of the company. The net profit for the half year is $504,906. From this amount the directors recommend that $200,000 be carried to reserve; that an interim dividend of $6 per share be paid, on the new shares in the company (being equivalent to $12 per share on the old shares), and that the balance of $124,905 be carried forward. The total amount of the debenture issue is $605,500. The twelfth issne of debentures amounting to $79,500 is due for repayment on 1st September, 1899, and it is not proposed to replace this amount by a new issue. The proposals made by the Company for the construction of the naval dock have not been accepted by the Ad. miralty. The directors being of opinion that the existing wharf accommodation is insuffici- ent for the growing trade of the port, have un-
der consideration extension works of au import- ant character, involving a considerable expendi ture of money, particulars of which will, in due course, be submitted to the shareholders.
CHANG CHIH-TUNG.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. ANOTHER PEKİNG CONSPIRACY.
THE PROPERTY MARKET
SHANGHAT:
Despatches received from Peking state that the Ministers of the Imperial Household Depart- ment have received what is believed trustworthy Shanghai have to be record
Some rather important sale intelligence of the existence of a formidable place within the past few days conspiracy involving the deposition of the occupied by the Mitsui Bus Empress Dowager, and the making away with obuen Road, belonging to her principal supporters, such as Jung Lu, Thorburn (the last Secretary o Prince Ching, Kang Yi, etc. The officials are keeping very secret over the matter, quietly Mr. R. A. Jamieson, consisting Council) his brother, Mr. J. D making their investigations, but it is believed 3 li 8 hani with the buildings that the conspirators are mostly, if not all, sold to Mr. Komura, of the cu Bannermeu, ie, Mauchus, Mongols, and descend-sha, for Tls, 100,000. Another ants of Chinese who joined the Manchus wheu between the Soochow Creek, invading China in the 17th century, generally Chekiang Roads, purchased by a Ja termed Hanchun. If these conjectures provetrue, pany in 1895 as the site for a Cotto there are hid len dangers not only for the Em-sold a day or two ago to Ch press Dowager but for H.I.M. Kuang Hsu also,215,000. It consists of mow His Majesty's only real friends being Chinese Gazette. and, perhaps, some dozen or twenty young Mauchus who joined the Reform Club when first started in Peking in 1895. The Empress Dowager having been warned, however, is taking the bull by the horns with her custom- ary energy, and defensive measures are being secretly made both for the protection of her Palace at Elo Park, and for the safety of her own person. Among the ostensible prepara- wherever she goes by a company of 50 of her tious the Empress Dowager is now surrounded
most devoted ennach armed with Mauser
repeating rifles, bayonets, and bandoliers cram- med with cartridges, and of 30 of the best best swordsmen that can be picked out of the eunuchs trained in that line.-N. C. Daily News.
THE CHINESE COURT ADVISED TO COME SOUTH,
We learn from native services that all the high officials at Peking have memorialized the Empress-Dowager to leave Peking and take the South, the name of which is not given, the Emperor with her to some new capital in The reason pleaded is that the southern pro- rinces are richer and more suited than Chih-li for the capital! But the real reason of course foresee their new masters are soon likely to is that the traitors who have sold their country
words they can already hear the approaching come to claim possession of Peking. In other
ramp of the Cossacks,China Gazette. PORT ARTHUR FROM A PRO-RUS-
SIAN POINT OF VIEW.
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RUSSIA, JAPAN AND CHINA
According to a Japanese press des Foreign Office in Tokyo, on 1 Reuter's dispatch that the Russian I Peking hd made a strong protest alliance between Japan and Chins. directed Mr. Yano, the Japanese whether the London dispatch was true China, to investigate the matter,
A reply has been received from Mr. definitely stating that the news published by Reuter was a mere canard.
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THE UNITED STATES AND THE...
SULU ARCHIPELAGO.
The sovereignty of tle United Staten in d knowledged throughout the whole Jolo or Bul American flag as their own. Brigadier archipelago and all the Moros now claim tis
eral John C. Bates, who went to Jolo- representative of the United States negotiations in a most satisfactory mann Governor of the Philippines has sonet
the haughty Sultan and all his adherente sworn to recognize the United States supreme authority and to respect and obey American Government,
The Moros were very suspicions and rathe to make upon their minds a very good unfriendly at first, but General Bates
sion. He explained matters to them very frankness. The inhabitants of the Jolo archí roughly and treated the Moros with utmde
pelago are all zealons Mohammedans and £. A correspondent of the Echo de Chine gives they found that the United States would
greatest concern was for their religion... V Port Arthur, which now, according to this interfere in their religious affairs and wo a very glowing account of the progress made at
writer, possesses commodious barracks for the
guarantee to them the right to worship. became more tractable and it was not troops, quays, gardens, private residences, build- ings of all descriptions, well furnished shops, ing by turns on the cruiser Charleston
fore friendly relations were established. hotels, a theatre, and select casinos where good the gauboat Manila and Custini, Genera music can be heard. Having referred to state- ments made in the English press about the op-holding conferences with many of the chief
visited the principal islands of the pressive treatment of the natives at Port Arthur and Talienwan the writer goes on to say: These injustices seem to please the Chinese, før they flock to the two towns in increasing num- bers every day. They arrive, in fact, by thousands every week from Shantung and elsewhere and benevolently offer as their services and submit to our alleged exactions. No one can say the same of the immigration at Weihaiwei, not- withstanding the well known equity of Mes- sienrs les Anglais. It is said, on the contrary, that the recruitment of their Cuinese battalion is going on very slowly, and, it is added, deser- Peasants (slanderers no doubt) say that a little distance from Weibai. wei the English engineers have treated the population so well that the latter have revolted, have refused to supply them with provisions, and that it has been necessary to operate manu militari.
If iniquity is unknown at Weihaiwei we regret to say that truth also is absent from certain editorial offices."
According to a Wachang letter Viceroy Chang Chih-tung may be termed the most popu- lar Viceroy Hupeh province has had for over a century. Among other public works which the people of Hupeh owe to him is his latest one of raising and repairing ten miles of dykes com- mencing from Hanyang to the foot of the Tsing- shan hills. Periodically these have burst open at important points, either from the freshets from the hills or the overflowing of the great river and other streams, spreading devastation and rain over several hundred square miles. Preced- ing Viceroys and Governors have only made temporary repairs, leaving the unlucky peo- ple occupying the low-lying lands, in ters are numerous.
8 state of insecurity. It has been left to Viceroy Chang to earn the gratitude of his people by resolutely tackling the question and spending a considerable portion of the revenues as well as perquisites which properly should have gone to his own pocket upon making substantial and permanent repairs on the dykes, and making improvements on them with rare engineering skill. The immediate result is seen this year in the bountiful crops throughout the country depending upon the dykes for protection, while the gratitude of the people, hitherto impove rished by the floods, and too poor to give any considerable testimony of their gratefulness, may be seen in the erection of tablets in each household containing the name of the Viceroy before which these poor people daily kowtow and burn incense-N. C. Daily News.
During the blow at Yokohama on the 15th Angust, we learn from the Japan Herald, the steamer Carmarthenshire went aground on the spit inside the breakwater owing to the break- ing of the catch in her mooring chain, under the strain, which allowed the chain to run ont to its extreme length. She was discharging Hongkong cargo and was expected to get off at any time.
men. Except that he is the head of the most lem faith in the Philippine Island, the Sultan of Jolo, does not have a very firm hold on t much as they please, and some of the Isl Moros. The stronger Datos or chiefs do well as in Mindanao, they repudiate his auther the Sioux Indians of America,
The Moros in many respects are
ines of the Island of Luzon. drier than it is in Manila, and apparen
General Bates states that the climate
ier. The islands are very fertile is not a great deal of waste land. fisheries are of considerable im
copra and heaip are at present the ally, the islands are of export. Commercially; as well as Americans and it is not thought
advantage authorities will have any trouble only troops now in Jolo are ei of the 23rd Infantry under the Major Goodale, who is soon to Lieutenant Colonel. ·
When General. Bates prominent Dato professed the for the Americans and offe sincerity by leading a foros of the insurgents at Zamboanga.
It is felt on all sides that General done excellent service in bringing archipelago under control without and so speedily — American.
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