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Press, Volume XIX, Issue 2817, 13 May 1872, Page 2

" In the Ballarat Court of Insolvency on April 27," the Courier says, " there was a case of more than ordinary interest involving a question which was likely to affect the mode of trade pursued by the Chinese in this colony. On Lee Soon, a storekeeper in Ballarat, had received goods of a Melbourne merchant, On Kee, to the amount of £260, and now sought to repudiate the debt by making affidavits than he knew no such person as On Kee. It appears that the Chinese have a trading or general name by which they are known in this country, but they have also a private or family name known only to themselves and their relatives in China. Kong Meng for instance, who is known by that ninae as a bank director and in all his business transactions in Melbourne, owns the nahTfl patronymic of Wye Kee. The business name is usually a motto; On Kee, the plaintiff in the action, meaning 'remember happiness.' Lee Soon, the defendant traded under the style of Sim Nam Hing, which on being translated means 'new sontn traffic;' and because On Kee had forwarded the goods to Lee Soon under this title, and because On Kee when ho was in the bosom of his family was known as Wan Hung Yung, Lee Soon conceirea the brilliant idea that he could get m of paying for the goods ; but his Honor Judge Rogers held a different view of »9 matter, and ordered the amount duo » be paid by the 14th June, or defendants estate to be sequestrated. We understand, that Lee Soon will now be prosecuted m perjury." . n At the Melbourne Criminal Be ®*°j?f,-°~ April 25, a young man named Henry «j"» Dickson was charged with stealing <> w ™~% jewellery, and other articles, the V John Milward. Milward married his w about four years ago in Tasmania. Mnr»" d has a separate income from her an » which has been left to her by her hasbana Mr Milward would appear not to a*™ » . a very faithful husband and MwMiiwaru bettered the example set her by eiw» b with young Dickson. Unfortunatelyjor v she took property with her^ome itbat sU considered her own, and some ™» ™H -. tionably belonged to her husband «oa Dickson having assisted her in fe™ 0 was an accomplice with her, and wascows with the larceny. The jury foandj ni» guilty, but strongly mercy. He was sentenced to one mo imprisonment, the first and last weeks w passed in solitory confinement. „ The Geelong Advertiser has the W ing, as showing how some been made during the late »It is stated that a wool *» nr *yj X ® district purchased in January, wit bales of washed locks at the rate of lb. He kept them for some November, 1871, they were forl'dperlb. The Mcs 4001b each, and his profit was an wen* of £19 13s per bale, or a £2868 18s. This was only one other profitable ventures that JJ re by the same gentleman.' It » «£££„, iB Sydney firms have n . m ~' One their wool operation, o last firm has netted £.iOOOO, another » and others estimate their profits at £5000 to £15,000,