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PARI8, question first, we imagine that the system that at present prevails-still it course of events will be something as precludes the interchange of currency STREET.
follows: The first issues of the new with the present legal medium of tael will, owing to the heavy demands exchange in the Far East by weight on the Mint for the new coins, bolone, which would otherwise have absorbed almost entirely by the capital been feasible. On the other hand and the neighbouring metropolitan then would appear to be no occasion to province. Ten years having been fear that the new Chinese coinage will allowed for the completion of the work, filter into this colony, as the Canton it would seem probable that during the subsidiary coinage has done, and it is first one or two, the coins will be scarce for the Government to use that the
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.
BRITAIN'S TRADE
DECLINE.
IMPORTS DECREASE BY £52,000,000 AND EXPORTS
BY E18,000,000.
(Indurius, Jervice supplied by Reuter, ola. Dombay,
LONDON, January 8. There has been a decrease during the
Ready made Day and Even- ing Gowns, Paris Models in Hats and Toques, Lacss, Trimmings, Under- clothing, Boots and Shoes, in all other parts of the empire, and the gradually discarded currency of Southern past twelve months in exports from Hosiery and Gloves, etc., effect on European trade will be trifling, China is not allowed to do so. It would Great Britain of £48,815,504, while the etc.
while it will be carried on for the most appear that we have at least one year imports have shrunk by £52,607,219. 679 part as at present. The turn of the to set our house in order and it will be
La that we are treaty porta will come next, and since well for
not found
A RECOMMENDATION. DEATH.
all Custom's dues are estimated in Hajnapping. Spanca-At the Occidental Hotel, Kowloon, on January 6th, Chantre K-kwan taels it would seem próbable that THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY. OIFALD, second son of the late Dr Spencer, the Customs authorities may find it Whitechurch, Bucks, Eugland. Aged 44
MEMOS FOR MONDAY.
Amrsements.
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Miscellaneous
Goods per Sydney unclaimed after the date at Noon will be subject to ront and landing charges.
General Memoranda, TUESDAY, January 12:
11a.m.-Acction of Furniture & Fix.
tures, at St. George's Club. p.m.-Performance at City Hall. WEDNESDAY, January 18:
tion.
Neon-Diocesan School Price Distriby 9p.m.-Promyslav at St. Andrew's Hall, Gooda per Delhi non cleared at 4 pum, on
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The Present Position,
An appost to raise funds for a University at Hongkong was issued to-day, by Hu Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, who as up the present position as follows:-
(Wah To Yat Po's Service.)
PEXID, January 8. "Shun Pao-ki, ex-minister to Germany, strongly recommends: Shun Shui-lin, Charge d'Affaires, as a very capable diplomatist and one likely to make a good Chinese Minister at a foreign Court.
ANOTHER MINISTER
necessary to demand that year by year a gradually increasing proportion of those dues shall be paid in standard coins of the Empire, which will require to be bought for that purpose. If two
A very fino eet of buildings has been years more should elapse before the promised. These include 6 lecture room. 3 laboratories, a large hall, a large dining mints are capable of coping with room, baries, with lavatories, offices
DENOUNCED. the incrossed demand, there remain and 4 large dormitories on the first four. and professors' rooms on the ground floor
but six in which the entire copper anatomical laboratory, a recreation pavi
Detached from the main building is an (Wah Te Yat Po's Service.)
PEKNO, January 8. lion, A gymnasium, a swimming bath, x0 entranco lode, tennis courts, &o. The Chan Pik, President of the Board of Government is prepared subject to the Communications, has been denounced concurrence of the Secretary of State to give a very fire site,probably the only to the Throne by Shiang Hwai, for one suitable for such a purpose in the
op-
FRONTIER TROUBLES IN
AFRICA.
DAMARALAND RAIDS BEING
SUPPRESSED.
-(Ezdusier Service, supplied by Router, ria Bombay)
LONDON, January 8.
With the co-operation of the Cape
authorities measures are being taken in suppress the Hottentot raids in German Damaraland. Great gratifica- tion is being expressed at this in Berlin. The German Government considers that
the steps being taken will havʊ: a.
laating effect on lawlessness amongst the frontier population,
[Damaraland is the name of the northern
district of German South-west Africa, serious rising broke out in 1904 and garo gross trouble during that your; it was not complutely suppressed until 1907.3.
YUAN SHIH-KAT'S DISMISSAL.
RUSSIA AND JAPAN PLEASED.
(Recucito Servics, Supplied by Beuter, tia Bombay,)
cash currency of the vast interior regione is to be replaced by the new system. Thie is not at all too long a time in which to effect so complete a change, Colony. The mement is singularly corruption. The Prince Regent is and will very possibly be greatly pertune for if the University is not greatly moved at these charges.
Inaugurated nor the College of Medicine exceeded. Thus it would seem that will be built on a separate and very cramped site, and it is hopeless to anti- we may anticipate two years of comcipalo that it will ever then become a parative immunity from inconvenience, Faculty of the University. Whether we aru shie to trail ourselves of these generous followed by two years of streas owing to offers, and of this present opportunity the insufficiency of available coinage, depends upon whether we can chiesa EXPENDITURE OF $675,000,000. Yuan was her most formidable opponent
adequate Endowment Fund,-which is put - which will have to be borns mainly by the Chinese themselves; and subsequent-
Goods por Mary Tenyo mudelivered at ōly only such inconvenience as will arise
p.a. on this date subject to ront.
from the difference in the exchange medinm in use in Hongkong and in the
NOTICE.
AMERICAN NAVAL EX- PANSION.
(Reuter's Service to the China Maï :
at £10,000 including furnishing and the ratorics, and engineers' shops, s. Mr equipment of the libraries and the labo
Copyright protisled under In those circumstances I earnestly appeal Medy's offer remains open for six months,
Ordinance 3 of 1804.) Chink in acquiring Western knowledge, to all who desire on the one hand to assist
LOTION, January 8. The United States Government has and on the other hand to extand British prestige, and the knowledge of the Eng-submitted to Congress plans for the Communications relating to new should be Chinese Empire. The will be perish language, in the East, to assist in the building of four 25,000 ton katileships, addressed to Tax EDITOR
manent and accustomed as we are to a
"project"
foar cruisers, and nineteen emallar Letters relating to business should be address practical identity of image, here and
vegsola. The coat will be $875,000,000. ad to THE MANAGER,
on the mainland, it will probably be Correspondents, must forward their naman and addrenes with any communications adapurying, and till we have adjusted dreamed to the Editor, not for publication but ourselves to the circumstances an in- go evidence of good faith,
All letters for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.
No anonymously signed communicatione that
pediment to commerce.
Yet notwithstanding all this we are
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The French Mail of the 8th December was deliverd in London on the 7th inst.
The English Mail of the 12th Decem ber was delivered in London on the 8th inst.
THE ILLNESS OF LADY'
LUGARD.
LONDON, January 9. The Times Peking correspondent states that Russia and Jopon are not displeased at the removal of Yuan Shib- kai. Japan is especially pleased, because
in her Maacharian policy. Moreover, the influence of the Japanese Legation over Na Tung, who now controls the Wai-wu-pu, is well known.
(Wah To: Tut Po's Service.)
PEZING, January 8. The Diplomatic Corps recently called on Prince Ching with the intention of enquiring into the dismissal of Yuan Shih-kai. Prince Ching, however, de- clined the interview, pleading his
illness.
Commenting on the dismissal of Euan
hors already appeared in other gazers will be disposed to congratulate the Colony on steamer Nizomedia, fall overboard sad was tained, although her Indyship is very ghi-kni from all lia offices and his departure:
inserted.
Orders for extra copies of the Cara Man should be ami before 11 aas, on the day after publisation. After that haur the supply is limited, Cask 10 the, Credit 20 ota, per
Capt. Wagemain, of the German drowned while the vessel was passing through the Shimonoseki Straits on the
27th December,
On inquiry this afternoon wo are inform ed that the slight improvement in the condition of Lady Lugard is being main- the fact that it has been brought about
seriously ill, in fact more so than was for his native province, where the Throne by the action of the Chinese Board of
anticipated by the general public. His advises hire to cure his rheumatien, the cellency the Governor is unremitting in his N.C. Day Netsys. -It was a dictum of Finance (we could never have done more
Attention, upon her Ladyship, and since the the late Cecil J. hudes that no one man is
of A notification is contained in the commencement the recent than suggested it), because it makes tha
indis-Recossary, for the world can get on very well without him. The best admirers of Gazete that the Gerarnor-in-Council has position of Lady Lagard, has had a Yuan Shib-kai will be the first to admit that reversion to a gold standard for Hong-granted permission to the Civil Service very anxious time indeed. Not only the he lacked that forceful energy which makes on Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to the kong so much the easier and more Cricket Club to use allotment A2 on Man-sympathies of the inhabitants of the Colony, for greatness among those who would be but all along the thins Coast and and political ability he was inclined to give leaders of men. Inspiteofnativeshrewdness Ofice, No. 5. Wyndham Street, not later than II desirable; we car even imagine circom- days, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
elsewhere will be with Sir Frederick am New Advertisements should be sent instances to arise that would make it in-
way too much to the pleasures of life, and Seven defendants were charged at the Lugard during this trying time and every-displayed little of the determination that befera & p.m.
Advertisements and Subscriptions schich are evitable. There are many among us Taylor, R.N., with making fast their Lady Logard will speedily be restored to his success most give rise among powerful: Marine Court, before Commander Basil ann, we feel sure, entertains the wish that self-made man in his position required, to counteraes the inuvitable, intrigues to which boats to the steam launch Hei Kong, health and be permitted for many years to Manchu cicles. But China is not so well while under way in the harbour, and were each fined 83.
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(we are not ourselves of the number) who have looked to this as the true remedy for the monetary troubles that
A Pittsborg telegram to the Tribrīns | have afflicted the colony, and the belief
states tha: it in years since the outlook in that this was the only cadical care the steel industry was so rosy as it is at possible has, perlaps, Leen the reason present. It is announced that the Steel why nothing has been attempted in this Trust has mceived fresh orders for 500,000 HONGKONG, SATURday, January 9, 1809. direction bitherto. We are assuming
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this year is successful. Should it be only partially so, there will be still greater confusion, and a satisfactory solution will only be the more imperatively necessary.
tons of steel.
His Excellency the Governor has been
vice Lieut. G. R. Home.
come to occupy that position in society to provided with mu that she can afford to which she is so justly fitted.
dispense with a single official who has proved himself to be possessed of ability and enlightenment. She is still in the net of crossing the stream, and she should" realize the danger she is incurring in this experiment of changing horses during the operation.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL-
Mousiour C. V. E. Bapst, French Minister in Peking, has been appointed to the Foreign Office in Paris.
The Emperor of Japan has given yan
Lord Windsor has succumbed to enterio
A COURAGEOUS CENSOR.
(Wah Tu Yot Po's Service.).
.. PRKING, January 8, Kang Chun-lin, a Censor, has de- modared to the Throne eight Ministers
that the movement to be inauguralen plowed to appoint Lieut. H. W. Green, 10,000 from his privato pures for the relief
2nd Battalion, the Buffs, as the military of the Italian earthquake sufferers. Ter action of the Board of Finance at
suber of the committee for the Wong- Peking, with reference to the establish
along and Queen's Recreation grounds fover in India. He was in his fifty-spond ment of an uniform silver currency for
yourand was the fourteenth Bason Windsor The Pausura Canal will be open in trang hile dosesnt from William Fitzwalter the whole of China, demands more con. It would not be difficult, with the present 1915 if the present rate of progress is castellan of Windsor Castle under the of high rank. The Prince Regent so sidention on the part of the fanciers low price of silvor, to devise a scheme maintained, said De Vaughan Cornish Empres Maud, daughter of Heary 1, Hegreatly admires his courago that ho of this colony than it has so far as we which would not only afford us a means speaking bofore the Royal Geographical had large estates in the neighbourhood of
desiree to give this Censor a high are aware, at present received. There of establishing a gold standard in Society. Social life near the works is al Cardif
ready that of a well-ordered and rospect- FLOKINENT business man who has been position. can be no question, that, as far as China Hongkong, but might also be a stepping able community.
Art by the cinly use itself is concerned, the decision arrived stone towards the foundation of a
Four mastora of junka wore charged of Stearns Wine of Cod Livoe Gil, roler Stearre' Hendaake Gore make it easily THE many commendable festaren af at is a wise one, and the moderation decimal system for Great Britain and at the Marine Court to day with failing blood tonic and tissue builder tisligions in the superior of all such preparations, Sure, with which the new proposals have been her Colonies, which has for so long a to exhibit the regulation lights while at taste.
anchor in the harbour. The first promulgated argues that the matter has time been talked of and desired. But we and second defendants stated that they bead carefully thought out, and will wust leave the plan we have to put had lights, but that the wind blew their probably be carried through with the forward for this double purpose to a out while they were asleep. These cases were adjourned, hat the other defendants 1ere each fined $2.
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coolie, having been detected is s value has been a crying want for a very the Board of Finance has been ill ad theft of 101be. of shrimpe on the long time, and possibly no nation less vised. It has been decided that the tael Minnesota, attempted to commit suicido on the beat by hanging himself with s patient or less conservative than the shall have a considerally greater degree rope. Ha was discovered in a nomi- Chinese would have submitted to the of fineness than the Mexican dollar, the conscious condition, and at the Magistracy inconvenience and Loss, which its ab Japanese yen; and the British dollar, to-day was sentenced to two months hard. sence has entailed, without complaint. which are all similar in this respect month for attempting to take his fo
jabour one month for the theft and one The ruthorities at Peking are to be con- This not only complicates the matter, pa so ple gratulated upon
having taken, on their but makes use of a matarial, which own initiative, one very important step experience has shown to be 100 under Section 6 (1)of the Stan pandiano This Wine has been specially put up for us in Reims and will be in the direction of reform That they no for a circulating medium in 1901, to the effect that on and from the 4th should have done so at all is me reason, constant use. It leads to a suspicion January, 1909, the stamp duty pryable in found very favourably compared with many high priced wines. respect of any godown warrant or zocsipt, (there are several others), for consluding that it is not intended to issue any large being of the nature of an sgreinen, atall Per Case, 24 Pint Bottles that the scheme will be persevered is number of those coine, but to use them be tendente, in place of one dollar as in and eventually successfully carried out,
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