SATURDAY."" FEBRUARY 3, 1928.
CHINA'S 1913.LOAN
COUPONS.
YOKOHAMA BANK'S ACTION.
HONGKONG TRADE.
CANTON CHAOS STOPS
CLEARANCE..
The fortnightly trade report of the Hongkong General Chainber of Commerce states:-
CANTON'S MUSHROOM
GENERALS.
8
THE CHINA MAIL.
MANY IN WHAMPOA. (From Our Our Correspondent CANTON, Feb. 2 PEKING, February 2
The last has not been heard of the The North China Standard states
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy that the Yokohama Bank has sent Cotton Goods-Very little busi- mythical generale who sprang up in note to the Chinese Government ens has been done during the inter- Canton after Chen'e flight. Alarmed demanding settlement of its acconat val, and prospects are very uncer by the attitude of the Kenngai-ites, relative. to the payment of coupons tuin owing to the chaotic state of they disappeared. Now about filty of in connection with the 1913 reorgania-affairs in Canton. The Manchester theas self-styled "commander-in- stion loon and sunouncing the seizure market keeps steady. Local values ohial".are etablished in Wunmpon Clearances are the head-quarters of most of Small of portion of the Salt Gabelle placed are unchanged,
them consisting of Cotton Yarn:- There is in the Bank's custody in case China very poor.
no commandeered honse, a temporary should fail to settle the account.
The Chinese Government replied to change in the situation of our signboard and a few, bodyguards.
market. Dealers are only buying Trade. is still stagnant, and the the Bank refuting the Bank's pois for the Yannan district-mi sinal notes have depreciated further. A quantities and for their immediate $1 note now only fetchen 7 copper and proposing a postponement of the settlement-Rauler.
requirements, there being no de crata. It has been reported that tan- and from other consuming dis-ders will soon be called for the gambl- Quotations are:- No. 105. $170/197. No. 12s. $175/198. No. 16s. $100/210. No. 90a. $178/207. Arrivals nil. Shipments nil. Salee 1,500 bales. Unsold stock 9,500 INDIAN CONSTABLE'S RESOUL. bales. Bargains.8,000 bales..
SNARED BY SNARE.
SUGARCANE FARMER'S
REVOLVER.
Ho Kata-hon, described on the obargo sheet 4a a rug creane farmer of Sanwau village, Puaii, was this morning fined $50 or two months' jail by the Marine Magi trate (Commander O. W. Beckwith, R.N..) for having. for the purpose of preventing seizure, thrown certain articles iato the harbour.
on
tricts.
ing monopolies,
WOMAN'S RASH ACT,
Woollens-The, continuance of Connaught Road West, Sheklong- the troubla in Canton and the tsui, was the scene of an attempted, approach of the Chinese New Year aicide at about one o'clock last has had a quietening effect on the night, when a cononbine, 27 years of arkes. A little business is being age, tried to take her own life by jumping into the harbour. An Indlan done.
Raw Coltons :-Stocks are ni Nominal quotations are as follows: constable who was on duty in the Indian descriptions at $31/39., Chi. neighbourhood and beard her smak' orica for help jumped in fully clothed nese staple at $36/42.
Metals:-Business has been quiet and rescued the woman, who had with very little enquiry. The dis. been kept afloat by a kind of overcoat turbances in Canton have put a she was wearing at the time. She stop to clearances. Continental was
BerDi-Conscita at the time
⚫Lanca Sergeant Soare said that at about 11.30 p.m., yesterday while he was searching junks in Yaumati Bay, makers are diffident in making and a European, said to he from be come across three men sitting on quotations, and it looks as if sup the Gas Company applied artificial the deck of G rico junk at plies will be difficult to obtain for respiration with succes. The consta anchor in the bay. As soon somo time. Small sales of Steef ble lost his police cape when saving bim ap- Plaice 3/16 inch, and up are re- the woman. as the ro 6AW
ported at $5 per picul. proaching they noattered and rai to other juaks which were lying alongside. The witness imme lately boarded the junk and seized the de fendant. Witness wanted to search defendant bat the man, who in his right hand had his overcoat pocket, resisted. Witness felt something hard, there and made out the barrel of a revolver, In the straggle which followed for possession of the weapon, d-fendant succeeded in getting his hand out of his pocket sad dropped the revolver. into the harbour.
Defendant said that it was not a revolver but a parcel containing 95 cents worth of Government opium,
Magistrate: Then why did you throw it overboard f-Because I wan a new comer and did not know the regulations. I had just arrived from Tamchan with a cargo of sugarcane. How do you know it was Govern ment opium ?-Because I bought it openly in the street at Yanmati.
The Magistrate then convicted,
CHINESE YOUTH AND LANGUAGE.
According to the report, the con- Flour Maricet Report:-Stock cubine lives at 48. Tai Yuen Strest. About 300,000 sacks. Quotations: From what has been gathered it ap American Patent, $3.90 per sack; peate that the unfortunate woman American Straight, $3.15 per sack; went down to West Point to upbraid American Cut-off, $3.15 per snck her hustand and in the beat of the Shanghai Flour, $3.25 per sack;
moment committed the rash act, Australian No. 1, $3.25 per sack.
Window Glass-Market steady. SugarMarket very quiet. Salipetre:-Dull without much
doing
ANOTHER "ADVISER."
MORE LIKE A SERGEANT
MAJOR."
BAFFLING THE BURGLAR.
NEW ALARMS TESTED. In the presence of the Hon. Mr. -- ER Hallifax 0.B.E., Sacretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. D. O. Wolfe, tha members of the *0.3.P., committee, Obinese Chamber of and others, festa Commerce of the recently-installed burglar-|
carried cut
at
Another "Adviser" of General alarms were Lan Teun wan's Kwangsi army was three Chinees banks on Queen's Road charged this morning with illegal Central opposite the old Fire Station. possession of one revolver and a bandolier full of cartridges.
Det. Sub-Inspector Fallon, who bad charge of the case said that defen dant was struggling with a party of searchers a few mirates before the "Heungshan" left for Canton.
The alarms in connected to the Central Police Station, cach block having a special indicator. When the bell in the premises is pushed the Station will indicator in the automatically give the alarm. This moming, two strong contingents of A Chinese describing himself as uniformed and plain clothes police commander of the "Western were sent out in response to the Circuit" of the Kyange alarme, arriving in both instances in Artay gave evidence as to the eix minutes, which was considered bona fides of defendant's claim to be--vory-efficient..
(BY A CHINESE YOUNG MAN.) a Chinese army officer,"
It would be atrange, if an educated Englishman could not read and write in the English language. But there is no novelty in fading that there are a good many Chinese youths who can only speak and write in a foreign language, particularly Englieb, with- out the slightest idea about that written language which is the buy to the long-lived civilization of.Chice. They cannot do much good for their mother country, unless they nader stand her; they cannot really under atard her, unless they are fret of all acquainted with her language.
grown
Chineso
of
His Worship (Mr. Lindsell): What business had you to be in 'Bengkong when people were fighting in Canton?
Witness: I have been sick for a
long time and came down for reasons.
of health.
Asked as to defendant's rank, wit ness said that he was a lieutenant.
The Magistrate: He looks moro like a Sergeant Major.
His Worship told wilpens that be would be doing a great service to bis army if he would inform officers that they must leave their arms behind when they came to Hongkong.
A fine of $150 was imposed.
WORSE THAN JAIL."
SEAMAN WHO DIDN'T LIKE SINGAPORE.
Surely, Chiness is a langauge very hard to master, but a few summers will enable a strong-willed student to have a fair amount of knowledge of it. It is now very encouraging to see that there are in Hongkong and Singapore many
James Clarence Moore, described as beginning to learn their mother of American nationality, was charged. tongue, but one nearly fainted the before Mr. R E. Lindsell this morn- other day, when one hearding with having tiowed away on the
Chinese student attacking bis Torilla" from Singapore. tich fellow students by attaching too mach Ee tall the Magistrate that he was
importance to the standard
a mercantile seaman, was paid off in English without due regard to the Singapore and went into hospital for value of the language, of which he two weeks. After that he was admitt himself is ignorant, but without the ed into the Sailors' Home which ba knowledge of which, one would ceate disliked more than jail on account of to be a Chincas student.
the fly and ant pests. He had 'rean Two years ago, an important educa the Consul in Singapore but was tional oficer of Hongkong in his not able to get a passage. home, lecture at a meeting of the Education although he had the money, because Bocisty of the University of Hong of certain requirements regarling keng, asserted that English and identification papers. For these ten- Chiness to equally emphasized in ons bestowed away to Hongkong schools of Hongkong, because, how ever good his foreign education may be, a Chinese student cannot be pioneer of Young Obles with
good
His Worship said that defendant bad cheated the Company of a passage. What happened at Singapore concerned the Consul and knowledge of him. He had no right to stow away. own language and top and would be fined $25 or 14 days
owa civilization imprisonment sequently hin The truth of the statement is na
out
questionable, and to end my writing, Mr. J. Ralston, of Queen's I only wish to say to my overseas Collège, was the victim of an im- Chinese brothers, "Do send your padent theft in Lyndhurst Terrace young brothers and dear children to near Pottinger Street at about 1.50 Obingeschools for a few yeare, and if p.m. yesterday, He was walking you yourselves are not quite familiar with Hr. 7.0 Fletcher with the picturesque language) of
that a gold watch with sailk
China, do Lave some pars time fob and pendant wort devoted to the cultivation of - ka
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COLONY'S FINANCES.
FIGURES FOR OCTOBER The Colony's financial statement for the month of Oct:ber last year is
as follows appmann N
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, Balance of Assets atid
Liabilitica September 30 1922
$10,530,783,19 Revenus from October.
1 to 3-1022
2,003 769.24
Estimates, 1022, $17,276,260; To vene from October 1 to 31, $2,003,753.24; revenue for the cor responding period the previous year, $1,884,751,37; actual revenue to October 31, last year $18,399,669,01:
and revenue for corresponding period the previous year, $14,217,603.84.
Under the expenditure head the statement gives the following totale:
Estimates 1922, $20, 198,980; ex- penditure from October 1 to 81, $1,798 685.29 expenditure for cor responding period the previous yeaT, $ 10,741,801,44 $1,191,859.10 actual expenditure to from *
June 30, last year, $14.190.668.42 and Expenditure
expenditure far corresponding period October 1 to 31, 1922
1,798,685.29 the previous year, $11,718 392.81.
Balanco....$ 10,741,801,44
A comparative statement of the Colony's revenue and expenditure for the period ended October 31, last year, given the following totale under the revenus head
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