October 13, 19003
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SWIMMING GALA AT KOWLOON.
A swimming gala took place at Kowloon on Saturday afternoon, 6th inst., in connection with the Victoris Recreation Club. The principal event was a six lengths" (200 yards) hand. icap, which was won easily by H. E. Moon, who owed seven seconds. Messrs. Hazeland and Yule were the handicappers, Mr. G. A. Coldwell star- ter and judge, Mr. E. M Hazeland timekeeper, and Mr.. T. Yale check starter. The following are the particulars of the different events :-
Two LENGTHS HANDICAP.
HEAT ONE.
HEAT TWO.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
THE ROYAL HONGKONG
GOLF CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S CUP AND SILVER MEDAL
FOR OCTOBER, CA
There was a fair attendance on the links, which would probably have been better but for rain on Monday and Tuesday. The following returns were handed in :--
CAPTAIN'S CUP.,
Mr. J. F. Noble Mr. E. F. Mackay.... Mr. H. W. Robertson Hon. J. Thurburn......... Mr. G. Stewart
88583
∙101
16
85
95
86
09
12
87
: 101
13 88
97
93
(14 entries.) POOL
Mr. E. F. Mackay... Hon. J. Thurburn. Mr. G. Stewart
95
101 97
1898.
(10 entries.)
86
13 88
CONSULAR REPORTS.
AMOY.
Under the
ing to
is little to be said for tea tråde, for the local and it seems more than mosan tea trade to t eventually pass through Jap ing through this port, the ex signs of any development and
province of Folkien is agriculturally and industrially one.
little
the poorest in the Empire. At first sight the increase in the imports seems to argue creased prosperity All the increase, howe is in grain, flour, and kerosene, and the difference between the imports and exports has been made up, not by money earned locally by money earned abroad by the vast number emigrants, and imported into or remitted Amoy by them. The mere fact of the orasing stream of emigration show the pover- ty of the land. If we except the carrying trad which is mostly in British hands, the trade of Amoy may be said to be almost entirely in the hands of the Chinese merchant. For imports he goes to Hongkong, where he finds a large choice of goods, and brisk competition among the vendors keeping prices low, the local British merchant is left out in the cold. The l'alk of the exports is to su
to supply the vast number emigrants living abroad with the native goods to which they are accustomed, and this trade naturally is in native hands."
Mr. Consul Mansfield is responsible for the report on the trade of Amoy during 1899. In his opening remarks he states that the gross value of cargo imported and exported in foreign bottoms during the year under review was F. H. Tats, owes one sec.
£3,719,792, as compared with £3,095,194 in F. D. Bain, owes five sec.
"Of this, some 72 per cent. was carried CM. Alves, owes five sec.
in British ships, a rather smaller percentage With the poor soil and the consequent poverty C. E. Hance, owes five sec.
than last year, owing to a line of subsidised of the inhabitants of the province of Fohkien, J. R. Hance, owes nine sec.
Japanese steamers, which has been competing says Mr. Mansfield, it is to its undoubted mineral Frank Jorge, owes ten sec.
with the Douglas Steamship Company, running wealth that Amoy must look for future pros- Jorge came in first, but was disqualified for between Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, and For perity. Coal, silver, lead, and iron are said to starting before his time.
mosa. The net trade of Amoy for 1899, after abound but in the absence of good water com- deducting re-exports, was £3,132,000, against munication, much will have to be done before £2,494,000, an increase of over 1 600,000. This these can be properly exploited. An excellent increase is entirely accounted for in the imports." quality of clay for brick and tile-making [Wo italicise the above words, which we refer abounds, and with modern methods this may
elsewhere.] Mr. Mansfield continues:-
become an important industry. The Japanese "The total tonnage clearing from the port have done much in the way of exploring the shows an increase of 160,000 tons, divided minerals of the province, but the results of their roughly as follows:-British, 60,000 tons; Ger- explorations have not been disclosed. "To sum man, 30,000 tons; Japanese, 64,000 tons; and up the trade prospects of Amoy apart from all American, 8,000 tons. The total British ton-political considerations, hopes, for the future nage amounts to 693,747 tons, that of all other appear to lie entirely in the improvement of nationalities being 277,091 tons. Total number communications and the opening of mines. of vessels cleared, 1,007, with a tonnage of With the increase of prosperity thus brought 970,838 tons, against 820 vessels, with a tonnage about, this port may eventually take its fair of 812,480 tons for 1898."
share of foreign imports.”.
E. Grant, Smith, owes three sec. J. C. Logan, owes five sec.
A. J. MacKie " 'go."
F. Jorge, owes five secs.
Cas
F. M. R. Pereira, owes ten sec.
Logan
Smith
FINAL HEAT,
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Time, 50 seconds.
SIX LENGTHS (200 yards).
H. E. Moon, owes seven sec.
A. E. Alves, owes ten sec.
A. A. Alves, owes twenty-two sec. N. H. Alves, “go,"
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W. A. Stopani, owes three sec.
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C. Gregory, R. W. F., owes three sec. Moon won easily, his time being 2 min. 503
600.
WATER POLO-The teams were Portugal against The Rest. The Portuguese team was made up as follows:-A. A. Alves, A. E. Alves, N. H. Alves, F. Jorge, Roza Pereira, Loureiro, and C. M. Alves. The other team was composed of F. D. Bain, C. Gregory, Wilson, Logan, Smith, McKie, and Lapsley. The Rest made a good show during the first half, but during the second, when they had the tide against them, they were altogether cat-played, the score being six against three.
HONGKONG POLO CLUB,,
THE LEWIS POLO TOURNAMENT.
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The first two matches in the above tourna ment were played on the 5th and 8th inst. and resulted in victories for Lieut. Commander Wil- kin's team over Captain des Voeux's, and Major Kettlewell's over Captain Loring's, both after close games, the one on Monday being rather spoilt by a heavy shower of rain.
The final match was to have been played on the 10th inst., but has been postponed. The teams in the final are:- Lient. Comdr. Wilkin Mr. Williams
Mr. Stockwell
Mr. Baker,
Major Kettlewell Mr. Mulliken.
Mr. Labertouche Mr. Taylor
Approval has been given by the Japanese Communications Department to the proposal to grant a subsidy for the construction of two steamers, each of 1,000 tons gross and of 1,000 horse-power, and another of 700 tons gross and 650 horse-power, all of which are to be built for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha at the Kawasaki Yard, Koba.
to
We have omitted, for the purposes of clear ness, Mr. Mansfield's remarks on the Formosa tea trade.
now give an extract from these.
Emigration of the Straits continues briskly (in spite of the cessation through plague during June, July, and August), a sure indication, the report points out, of the poverty of the Amoy and we to the subject again neighbourhood. As the emigrants filter back to shortly Amoy via Hongkong, only an approximate estimate can be made of the number returning annually. Mr. Mansfield estimates about 65 to 70 per cent. As regards Manila, the prohibition of Chinese immigration continues. This is a suicidal policy, but "no change is probable until experience has taught its bitter lesson."
The net value of exports was £363,514, against £328,151 in 1898. As frequently predicted in previous reports, the trade in Amoy tea has ceased to be a factor, and the tea trade there is reduced to the re-export of leaf grown in Formosa. From merchants' returns Mr. Mans- field gathers that in the season of 1899 there were offered for sale to foreign merchants in Amoy only 823 half-chests of local leaf, value about $6,000. In the season of 1879, 146,00 half-chests of Amoy tea were exported, and in 1889, 67,000 half-chests. A diminution of the trade in Formosa leaf, sent to Amoy in transitu, is probable in the near future, says the report.
"I am informed by the Amoy Chamber of Commerce that a differential tax has been im posed by the Japanese Government against the trade by this route and in favour of shipment to foreign countries via Japan. This very vitally affects the interests of British merchants both in Amoy and Hongkong, and urgent appeals have been made by both the Hongkong and Amoy Chambers of Commerce to Her Majesty a Minister in Tokyoin connection with it. From what I can gather British merchants here feel very strongly that their energy and created the Amoy and Formosa tes trade and any special taxation against them they naturálly resent. There can be no doubt but that should the Japanese succeed in diverting the Formosa tea trade from Amoy, British shipping interesta will suffer as well as local merchants.
CHEFOO.
pital
A falling off of 745 chests (value £50,000) is recorded in foreign opium import, almost en- tirely in the Persian drug. The better class native drug, being similar in quality and lower in price, is superseding the Persian. A large increase of revenue might be obtained by care and honest administration of the rapidly increas ing native product. Morphia consumption is increasing largely, in default of a prohibition of import from the Central Government, with a sudden advance of £90,000 the approval of the Foreign Minister. Kerosene value of £139,347. did very well, and there is at Amoy as elsewhere to the total failure in China a great future before it when the in- In cottons, English land navigation question is on a better footing. figures, while Japanese Cotton-goods importation is trifling still. The yarn did well and Japanese are trying to introduce cotton cultivation from the field. tion into the district.
still a vast proport
Mr. Consul Tratman, who is responsible for report on the trade of Chefoo for 1899, did
year, so that he had to rely mainly on statistica not reach his post until March in the present.
and on information supplied by local
The total value of trade for the year, he was £4,454,522, an increase of £355,000 on the previous year, the best to date, mpo showed a decline, so that all the Among imports, ho
made
Native