Let " stand for the number of pounds and y for the number of shillings. As by the terms of the problem the number of pence is to be less than the number of pounds, let n be the difference between the two, 'I'he sum aclected will then read £oa a zy one of the pounds and add it to Borrow one of th the pence lings and add it to x-1 19ty 1+2-n Subtract from this the sum as it originally aceed reversed 8. a. z-1 19+y 12+z—n 19 12-
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always the number of pence in a shilling, plies both & and n and y the number of shillings in a pound, The Saikio Marw arrived here on Tuesday evening with dates from Yokohanua to the 25th ult..—The reductions in the Budget by the Diet have necessitated the dismissal of some vf the government's must valuable foreign employés.—A meeting of members of patlinmont, civil engineers, and other pro prison, would sine into insignificance beside suc conduct aa the proposed withholding of the promised increase to the salaries of the Hongkong Civil Servants.—The Hiroshima Maru, the new steamer for the N.Y.K., arrived at Hongkong on the 26th.—The Empress of India was to go into the Admiralty Dock at Kowloon last Monday.—The tronpshi Tamar strived on the 96th with reliefs for the British China equadron.—The annual meeting of the Luzon Sugar Retining Ca., Ld., off satisfactorily on the 26th—At the ordinary annual meeting of the Balmoral Gold Mining Ca., Ld., on the 26th, Mr. G. R. Stevens in the chair, the delay in the receipt of returns and the necessity for more funds were explained, and it was predicted that with $20,000 more capital the mine would be a success. Tt was finally decided to issue as required 4,500 new shares of $10 each, entitled to a cumulative preferential dividend of 12% per annum.—The annual report and accounts of the Punjom, é&c., Ca. have been issued. '*A very dismal statement" the China Mail calls it. A thoroughly experienced prospectus has been imported into Punjom from Australia, but meanwhile the funds of the company are nearly exhausted, and the agreement with Mr. Becher is not to be continued.
As the tea season is approaching, we beg draw attention to the following extract from the Tea Circular of 11th February last of Messra. Reinach's Nephew & Cv.
Dealings on the Clearing-house have of late assumed such large proportions that at the present moment our market for good common China Congous is virtually controlled by them, and they are exercising considerable influence over the value of lower grades of Assums also, The rapid changes in the quotations of the former, rising ry short time from 6d. to 8d., relapsing again to 63d. and recovering to 74d., have caused a feverish excitement in our market, We have not sufficient cognisance of the operations on the Clearing-howse to be ugo the relative strength of the "bulls," but we would warn the latter, who have undaub! very strong standing through the exceptional statistical position, that bear catching, as rule, is an exceedingly difficult game, in Japau.—The installation of the ok ie and th are few cases where the sayin, light at the Grand Hotel, Yokohama, com-many a slip betwixt the cup an prising 676 incandescent and 4 are lights, ip" is more often illustrated. allen the Brueh system, has been most Tt is evident that we are successfully completed.—Mr. W. Falck, a immediate danger of a Tea fami Norwegian, shot himself dead with a re-China Congous are concerned till it should volver at Yokohama on the 23rd ult.—The be boris in mind that there always must Hashidate Kan, a coast-defence turret be a considerable dead stock in an article vessel of 4,277 tons, was Inunched by the dealt in by so many thousands of traders, Si Emperor at Yokosuka on the 24th ult,—and with a decreasing consumption this A Japanese aeronaut, named Suzuki Ma-dead stock—whichj is held by wholesale gojuro,-hae with his balloon and parachute dealers, middlemen, and retailers—will not auccossfully imitated the feats of Mr, Spen-cor:—We take the following from the Liege decrease in the sine epee as the consumption. The available stock of Congou News;—Mr. Frank Upton received the fol-suitable for Clearing-house purposes must lowing telegram on the 23rd inst. "he therefore be unproportionably smaller than Mayor of Ikishima wires to Nagasaki that last year, the more so as the falling off in the Queen Elizabeth atruck sunken rock this season's imports chiefly consisted of near Isafushi at midnight on Friday and is such grad under water, No lives are lost and only The market for common to good common personal effects saved. A party from Naga-Indian Teas (and that of Ceylons in sym-saki started on Sunday night for the wreck, pathy) has been steadily rising for the past but put back through stress of weather. month, and quotations are 2d. to 24d.
To-day, Monday, a Japanese man-of-war December prices. There cannot has gone to render assistance." 'The cargo doubt about the very strong statistical was insured in the Canton and China Tration of Indian Teas, and we consi dora' insurance companies. Mr. Upton scarcity in these grades durin, the early received a later telegram on the 24th st summer months a much more likely eve! that the ship was lying in eight fatho triality than a scarcity of China Teas. For-wafer, in a very exposed position, the stern tunately we are now entering upon the being just visible. It is probable that her back is broken.—The Queen Elizabeth was season of the large Ceylon pickings, and with the enhanced prices these sort reali on a voyage to Manila with 4,000 tons of on our market we shall probably receive a Karatz coal, sufficient quantity to make up any deficit with dates to the 27th tle The Daily We received Hongkong papers yesterda; ency we may have in Indian growth Although, as we said at the beginning, Press holds that the turpitude of the home the speculative market controls the key of government, in increasing Hongkong's the position, the bond fide demand may at military contribution without sending the any moment become @ very dangerous factor to the "bears." So far, the country has maintained a placid calm'; country, dealers are evidently sufficiently supplied from former purchases to avoid coming into the market at present rates, and the vital question is:—Will they be able to follow this policy for any length of time? Were it earlier in the season we should not hesitate to say that they must buy, but after all we are rapidly approaching the period of the year when the main object for all Gealers in Tea ie to reduce stocks, so as to get ready for the new crop. Hf the country can only hold out for a few weeks longer dealers will find, as they generally do, that the market will come tothem. Should, on the other hand, stocks in the country prove insufficient, or eculative demand from that quarter is much more reason to see extreme prices for Teas than there was in 1879-80, The Belfast News-Letter of 9th December last has a full account of the recent presentation to Sir Robert Hart, G.0.M.G., by the members of the Chinese Imperial Customs of an elaborate service of aliver Plate, 'The account concludes with the hope that Sir Robert will' not be. too re-lowing interesting paragraphs, and we
ticentin his contemplated volumes:—"* Sir Robert has now been nearly forty years in China, and as an authority on China and the Chinese he is easily first amongst. his contemporaries, He is an assiduous work and but rarely takes a holiday, O children he is intensely fond, and of them he may well be proud. His favourite recreations are music and literature, 'Thirty-eight years ago, when a student at the Queen's College, Belfast, Dr. M'Cosh (since Decome famous in America), after perusing one of hig essays on common sense, him, "Hart, if you will continue to write, you' will succeed and had the wind and talents which he has bestowed go unre-fittingly upon the Customs been directed is literature, the sai to publish one or two velums and the Chinese, which will f the experiences which forty years' intimate acquaintance with China and her rulers have enabled him to gath These works, when published, should pro extremely interesting, and, concerning "Far y,"" will certainly be the most valuable During the past three decades there have been many forces making for the enlightening, the civilisation, and the truest interests of China, and' amongst them there has been none more potent, none more far-reaching and abiding, than the imperishable work accomplished by Sir Robert Hart.
Sir Robert is expected in these islands next spring. Ho is owner of extensive properties in the North of Ireland, and is a.son of the late and much-respected Mr. Henry Hart, of Ravarnette House, near Lisburn."
'M. Levasseur having written in August Jast in the Indépendance Tonkinoise an article which offended M. de Cuera de Cogolin, and the latter having replied two days later in the Courrier d'Haiphong in an article which offended M. Levasseur, a duel with swords was fought between these n at Haiphong at 6 a.m, on the seconds on each side a condition that the two Pp future omit references to private lives in their newspaper warfare. At the first encounter in the duel M. Levasseur was hit in the palm of is right hand. At the second M. de Cuers was lightly hit on the right leg. At realise the third M. Levasseur received a wound on the right side of the chest, involving the pectoral muscle; and as this, in. the opinion of the doctore, put him in @ condition of inferiority, the secunds stopped the fight, All which is recorded at length in the Courrier d'Haiphong, of which M. de Cuore is editor, of the 22nd it.
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