26th Oct.
"Nur Societe des Charbonnages clu Tou-kin has shared to some extent the fate of many companies established in new countries with insufficient capital, That it has mines of very great value we know, and the first idea of the pro-lectors of the company was that they had nothing to do but to take the coal from the hillside, ship it to Hongkong, tion to the Weénchow Dialect.
The s larity in the following terms. The and sell it there at a very remunerative Forty Exercises of Sir Thomas Wade's variations in dialect sin Chinesecities are price. Japan coal was to be ousted course are here turned into the speech found to be greater or less according to from the Hongkong market, and the of the people on the coast mid-! istance, and mountain chains interposed colony was to be turned, by the aid of way between Ningpo and Poochow. increase the variation. hose variations the influx of cheap coal from Tongking, At the beginning there isa full table prevail in all the parts of Chinese words, into a great manufacturing centre. of sounds and in the latter portion of whether consonants or vowels; initials or Prospects of this kind, and the con-the volume there is a collection of finals, tones or aspirates, Now it is fidence felt in the promoters, sent the nearly eight hundred phrases with an known from the characters which have shares of the company up to a high English and Chinese Vocabulary. Such been in use for four thousand years, premium long before more than a few volume of about 300 pages is a that the final consonants m, a, ug, sample tons had been received in considerable help in the Darwinian powere all in the language when the Hongkong; then the company spent enquiry we propose to make. Wenchow characters were invented. Phonetics in all its money and a great deal more, is half-way between Shanghai and Amoy. m are not used for words in x. Conand was believed to be only kept Its dialect is intermediate just as its sequently the same is true of initials, alive by the untiring energy of Mr. topographical position is intermediate. for they are liable to the same law of Chater and Mr. Mody. Mr. de Bovis, This is the point we wish to emphasise. variation as the finals. This is a strong the Chief Manager of the Hongkong All over China dialects change from argument which cannot be overturned. and Shanghai Bank, was taken down to city to city and so they do here. A Did not Confucius write the same the mines to see for himself what a Shanghai junicman spreads his sails on characters that are now used with} valuable property they are; and it was the five masts of his vessel and proceeds the phonetics included? There they reported when he returned that he threw on a journey south from Woosung with are in the books he left behind as no doubt upon the value, but did doubt 1 cargo of cotton goods, varnish and his legacy to posterity. The law of} Bank's money in the venture, There the propriety of risking any more of the fugus, for Ningpo and Wenchow. With the finals already stated obliges us to fair breeze he passes the Saddles believe that when the characters were was some sort of an impression, though and with a south-south-west course first made the six consonant finals) we are not aware that there was the reaches Ningpo. Here he finds no were all there. But if so, the sonant least foundation for its existence, that difficulty in making himself understood. initials of the older dialects must have the French people in tongking had some Ningpo'is on the 30th parallel and been there also. The argument cannot scheme in their heads to " freeze out" Shanghai is 31}°. He sails again for be evaded and is supported by a multi-Wenchow which is on the 28th parallel tude of auxiliary orlenoee of which the English, who are far the largest, shareholders in the mine and make it a of latitude. Still the sounds spoken may be well to mention one or two. thoroughly French enterprise: however are much the same. Words are sounded Who sonant initials 6, 9, d, on their way this may be, there was much anxiety with a clear b, q and @ as initial letters. south stop at Wenchow, but at Amoy as to the present and future of the his feature exists all along the coast Buddha is called Put, which represents Company among the shareholders, and for about four degrees of latitude.
But. Consequently & was formerly the shares at last advices were barely Beyond "Wenchow there is a chain of heard all down the coast over eight saleable at a discount of about 40 per mountains which separates the provinces degrees of latitude. hen we learn cent. In the Daily Press of the 20th Our junkiman can carry on his trading Faokien and Chekiang from each other. from Chinese history at what cities instant we find the following note from translations of Budilhist books were a regular contributor who signs himself operations very well at Wenchow be-formerly made from Sanserit. At Honan- i "Upsilon cause the initials are identical. The fu in North China the character now "The curious revelations made in chain of mountains separating the vinces keeps the population apart, The called Fu was selected for Buddha, It the Charbonnages litigation at Haiwas therefore then culled But, or it) phong seem to call for some explana rivers flowing from the mountains help would not have been selected. From ation. Those on the inside track no to carry the people and the produce of these facts the light breaks upon us doubt understand their meaning, but the soil to the chief city in each pre-quite clearly. Mandarin is new, and what are the outsiders to think? And fecture. What then is the result?) the south-eastern provinces retain the! what have the shareholders of the 'The barrier of mountains intervening old language from Shanghai to Canton. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to say diminishes intercommunication and so Mr. Parker in Mr. Giles' very useful about the aspersions cast on the char causes dialects to grow wider apart. dictionary has denied that the sonant acter of Mr. de Bovis, lately Chief The relation of Wenchow to Foochow in initials ever extended over North China. Manager of the Bank and now its re-regard to dialect is a visible one. Ng!
In so doing he has contradicted the presentative at one of its most important is the only nasal ending of word, and native makers of dictionaries and in- branches? Mr. de Bovis has been the diphthong ai is a favourite in both serted a novelty of his own instead of} exonerated by the Haiphong Court dialects. If we pass to Amoy there are the recognised conclusions of a sound! and nothing but the most conclusive three nasals m, m, ug, besides the; philology. proof would induce those who know three finals p, ¢, & Our Shanghai Mr. de Bovis to entertain a shadow junkman is not understood in any part Ose Box or Crarke's B41 Pixs are of a suspicion as to the integrity of of Pakien province. His initials are warranted to cure all discharges from the hi is dealings. But what the general some assistance. But without farther constitutional), Gravel and no help'to, him, though his final & - of Urinary Degenns ta cig we leone or} public would like to know would be the k. (Guaranteed free from Mercui Pains in the Sold DO! avec he charges tive of the charges which, according, detail we have now enough facts for in"Boxes, 4a. Gd. each, by all Chemists and to the judgment of the Haiphong Court, on fa our argument.
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