QUAINT GOLD HUNT.

Evening Star, Issue 11863, 17 April 1903, Page 8

QUAINT GOLD HUNT.

llw remartable history of a gold hunting expedition m Abyssinia was the main feature of the case rn which, after two days’ hearing before Mr Justice Ridley, Ralph Haynes Anger 28 Queen Elizabeth’s walk. Clissoid ptrk, lately obtained judgment far £I.OOO, with interest and costs, from the Jungle Syndicate, Limited, Brood street House. The money was subscribed to the syndicate to work a concession granted by the Emperor Menelik to Baron Leontieff, the Russian officer in his ?f mca, ™ who P** 3 ** l oa to the Russian Baron Chedeuvre, who in turn assigned it to Mr J. Henochsberg, a director of the syndiV* 1 ®- I*nds near the Anglo-Egypt! on border, 15,000 miles in extent, were to be explored, under the leadership of Mr H. S. S. Cavendish, the well-known explorer, with Angier as engineer. After leaving Charing Cross the secretary, it is said, had £5 in his pockets lor expenses and through tickets to Jibutil—tbe expedition soon encountered trouble. At Marseilles Baron Chedeuvre suddenly discovered that he had to leave 11 because be wanted to see his mother.” At Jihutil it was found that the necessary camels would cost £3,000, and £BOO .a month was estimated as expenses. On the other hand, the expedition had a stock of rifles so obsolete that the Abyssinians would not look at them, and a quantity dl—cigarettes. Meanwhile the remainder of the stores had gently glided to the bottom of (he Bay of Biscay in the good ship Base to. Then, to. heap misfortune upon misfortune, the Emperor Menelik refused to recognise the concession, as it was “ non-trana-fliable.” The expedition got no further. “ A wild and speculative undertaking, in which .'.iigier took the risk,7 was the une adopted by tbe defence, but the Judge held that there been misrepresentation, and gave judgment cordingly.

Buy your tea from the importer and save the middleman’s profit. Wardell Bros, and Co. import their teas direct.—[Advi.] It was the Mikado that Mr W. S. Gilbert credited with a wish to make the punishment fit the crime of the criminal, but it is only in China that the principle is acted upon. A briekmaker in Hunan was just lately fined 20,000 bricks, with the alternative of being beaten and “ banded over < to a mandarin/’ He chose the bricks. Hie idea is a good one, and night find some useful eooknimait elsejphtSfc •