SHIPPING NOTEN,
The Nippon Yonen Kaisha recently took over from the builders, the Mitsu Bishi Kaisha, the now steamship Tanga-nary.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 9TH, 1905.
HOW BRITAIN · SPENDS MONEY. Į the largest salary, £18,921 78. Od, he is knighted, to £3 per head and zotailed it to the
and he has a prescriptive right to permanent employment in high judicial office. The last fortunate servants of the public are the reservist soldiers, who give up their employment at the beginning of a war, and, in the event of their ranks of the unemployed. It is hoped that after the next big war our soldiers will no longer any
troops at 8d. and 94. a pound, giving A profil of £20 por head of oron. The income taxpayer was then paying ls. 24 in the £. He is now only paying 1s.. but at least id, ont of that is is hoiau spent in a manner that would not be WE HAVE THIS DAY, private enterprise.
The atonmer Queria which was recoil, government of the United Kingdom about | survival, return home to find themselves in the permitted for an instant in a well-managed
chartered to the Nippon Yusu Kaisha has ziow been place in the Newchwang service.
The British steamers Wingsnag and Toang have beon rolvased from charter to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The British sawer Dulwich (2,111 tous) has been chartered by Mr. K. Yamashita of Yokohuna..
Scotch shipyards in the quarter ended March 31 turned out 5 cassels, aggregating 114700| tous, as compared with the same period of 1904, when the output was 18 vessels, with a tonnage of 102,400 tons. The comparison further indicates the increasing average size of new Vermolu. The tonnage for the past quarter is the largest on rosord with the exception of the same period of 189, when the ligar was 118,000 tous. The number of orders booked in Seatch shipbuilding yards for March, however, do not exceed 14,000 tons, which does not promise the same activity in the present quarter.
Cassell's Magazine, edited by Max Pemberton, gives the following interesting article by Mr. Arnold White-John Bull spends on the £177,000,000 per and win. This is finely called Imperial expenditure, although it is not spont upon the Empire. India The local expenditure her own expenses, and the Colonies theirs! of the Borough and District Councils, the Asylum Boards, and what are known us educa tional and other rating authorities any be dealt with on another occasion There is a good deal of spending in £177,000,000 a year, and the State in consequently the largest employer of labour. net also the best, customer in the United Kingdom.
There are
until attention was drawn to the fact by a mero
the
One of the claims which followed the Boer Settlement reached me from a town which I knew woll, Ono' man cluimod 103, for half a dozan ostrich ogranddled by the troops having disturbed his sitting bird. "Another claim was for four spring buck at 30. spices, which
it it as aged, and escaped through gaps wire Another man
mud 1, a day for each of hulf a dozen Kafirs engaged to watch the places where the wire had been cut, while all Cargal froin, to 10 for each piece of cut wire repaired. The little eccount amounted to £19, which was considered most reasonable by the authorities.
It is probably the first time that the English taxpayer has been made to pay 10s. apieve for oddled eggs and 30s. for a skimpy buck passing from ons field to another..
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JAPAN'S OVER-SEA TRADE.
EFFECT OF THE BALTIC FLEET.
"In time of danger and in timo of war Our God sad soldiers wo alike adore; The dangor o'er, our honour righted, Our God's forgot, our soldiers slighted." This, however, is a metacacholy sabirut. We will pass on to something more amusing. Our great. Admiral Nelson won his famous battles ou ships built of British esk. When he cap tured the French and spanish shija hin seamen Axcended their bluff sides by means of boarding pikes driven into the sumy's hall When wood was replaced by Iron in the construction of warships, and still more when iron was replaced by steel, whether Harveyised or of the Krupp variety, a female auburban
That the presence of the Baltic Squadron in housekeeper on £20 a year, with no know. ledge of moral affairs, it responsible, would have already referred to the great saving For Eastern Seas must love an effect upon have discontinued the manufacture or purchase offocted by Sir Julu Fisher in getting rid of Japan's foreign commerce is indisputable, anys the Jap Mail. The Showgo Shimpu writes of boarding pikes for the British Navy, No 130 ships that can neither fight or run away, interestingly on the subject. Rice and raw
But the Joy
that thrille us at the saving of cotton, it observes, would naturally be the! Boarding pikes were issued eren in the present
that these discreditable and embarrassing ships imp uswspaper seriba, who was virulently attacked and that the upkeep of the dumpios counot firmedling with what he did not understand. have cost less than 27,000,000 since the year The ins of barding pikes was defended by 1895. Although hips with sails and must the old school of admirals on the ground that consed to be useful for war parisen by 18 thy reminded us of the good old days, and in the Cadmus, which cost £9.927, and the Clio actually sent any event could be used as sonders to the paint posting £92.535, were built and work while in process of drying. It did not ta sen by the Admiralty in 19 4. The Cadmus afternoon of October 21st, 1904, that all money occur to any official at this Admiralty until the was diseruditable and the lis subarrassing But the taxpayer, who pays for both, woader spout on the Fleet which does not conduce to at the ways of officials who build eight fighting efficiency, whether on a button, a vessels of the io class, only to discard the
lot the instant they are complete. dmiral, or even a gun, is money thrown away.
What is the reason for buying things that are not wanted; for building ships that cannot for pulling down naval baras to build bigger in
that were obsolute years before they were tedbrot A Friend of mine is a high official position told me that he once visited a certain dockyard and notices a man standing doing nothing where on many previous occasions he had remarked the me individual,
three points that strike the saunterer in the jungle of national expenditure The first is the contrast presented between the extraordinary skill of the complex system devised to prevent the expenditure of a penny by an unauthorised person and the clumsiness with which millions are squandered on objects which turn out to be of no possible use to the nation, oven on the authority of the very people who sanction the expenditure,
The second point that strikes the cheerful vast buyer, the State, Las no buying depart
John Bull's marketing are not only untrained. for the purpose, but that the myors of a furent departments occasionally bit against one annther.
A third feature that attracta attention is the strange system that governs the remuneration Sir John Fislur at of John Bull's survaots, the Admiralty, whose satury is £1,500 a year, with his admiral's pay and a house, recently saved the country a sum of £3,000 a year by recommending the abolition of 13 ships which, in the words of the Prime Minister, whose Government had maintained all and built wany of thom, existed to embarrass British would b-loss to com, are the silary of a mus fight or run away when flight is essential; and spent the repairs were abandoned, and the and thus only cotton suited for use in the admirals and to discredit, the British fing." It
but listless inquirer is the fact that this ancli economy occurred to the Admiral13:23.090,000 a year is arred by the reflection staples specially baffuenced, since both are: porusion that the foreign stammers sold tomont, and that the gentlemen whe conduct century to the battleships of the British Narf how bowo dummies ever wing they worn buftimported from regions inaccessible without i
We learn from case of our Japan contem Japanese are the outbreaks of war in February, 1974, number 70, of 22,732 tons grows. In addi- tion, Japanese shipowners have now 2 foreign real umler obartor, of 101,529 tona gross. The ressols chortored to Japause, according to nationalities, are as follows: ---
Flags. Norwegian
British ...
Germen
Swedish..
Frencla
Korean
Total
1+-
Tona. 41,271
Tassels.
5
148,516 8,329 1,637 ti49 1,327
.52
101,529
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passing the zone where the Balticors may be ected to operate. In the case of rice, however, importations have already been affected, and there is father the it happens fortunately, that large. fact that owing to last year's muguificent harvest the country is exceptionally well provided with the home-grown product. Honco no special inconvexiones need be anticiputad in connection with a temporary cessations of supplies from PER CASE OF 48 PINTS.... Rangoon and Saigon. Cotton, however, has no such compensations. Russia originally at tempted to include raw cotton conditional contrail of war, but in deference PER CASE OF 100 Splity to American remonstrances sho subsequently modified her views so far as to aduxit conditions,
manufacture of explosives is now on the cou Lot expect, however, that Russian ratal offers will exercise a very clour-sighted distinction in this matter. The probability is that cotton-j
pers will not take the risk of relying on Russian judgment. During the present month SOLE AGENTS- 90,000 halos hara been shipped, or should be shipped, from Bombay, and during May 100,000 bales. Insurance might have been high in any case, but that is a small matter compared with the total cutting off of thesupply. It has to be noted, however, that exceptionally ample importations of raw cotton took place daring the first three months of the present year. The following comparative figures are viveu :--
A Board of Inquiry has been appointed by to snare the servic∙n of a competent Attornoy- [rder to held an ever-increasing stors of articles considers1 discreditable and embarrassing. I demoed hat. Our Tokyo contemporary does)
the Collector of Customs to inquire into marine neoidents in Manila Harbour,
THE TAMING AT MANILA.
T. R. Nicol, second affear of the British steater Taming, was found guilty in the eart of first instance of interfering with a mustones official in the performance of his duties and of
First Sea Lord with the konorarium necessary
General Comparison, however, is at least een the officer in the War permissible between Department who fils a similar function to Lionnat (Fuerul the Honourable dir. Y Lienaat-Feuerul N. Lyttelton is the first military member of the Army Connoil, and receives £2.500 a year
An anomaly exists, and one wonki think that when known to the public it would ceass tu exist.
"Who are you, my ma?" he said. "I am Mr.'s (naming an official at cho
striking a native guard, and sentenced to be against Sir John Fisher's £1.500 and a house. Į dockyard) boatman, sir.". imprisoned for three hours and to pay of 100 dollars gold.
Nicol's attorney gave nolics of appeal to the Supreme Court and bond was fired at $200,
LATER. The British steamer Taming left Manila for Cebu on May 1st to discharge 1,5 tons of eargo. From the southern port she will proceed directly to engkong Senad officer Nicol, who was tried in the court of first instance for a violation of the customs administrative act
AN ENGINEER'S DEATH.
th, has Mr. - a boat?" No, sir; he hasn't had one for two years." And whist have you done during taosa two yesra?"
"Nothing, sir."
The illustration of the adage that the race is not always to the swift nor the ba tle to the strong, in confirmed by the custom which prevails in the Foreign Office of requiring
The story of the dockyards would not be ordinary business letters to be copied by complete without recalling the peculiar methods aristocrata The thoory upon which the
of supply which prevailed until recently. Not Forsign Offee is worked in that Forsign very long since the scoumiation of an article, Office business is secret, and that only aris-
aris- sovori hundred dozen of which were supplied tocrats can be relied on to maintain secrecy. en the same principle na the boarding pikes few days ago did not sail on the vessel, as the The junior clerks (first class) of the origings in which they were stored required onlarg
worn issued, was so great that one of the build eaptain refused to use the responsibility of Offco are paid £200 to £800 a year, and of the taking him away from Manila while oder bail second vloss £100 to £200. Many of these. meat. Theas articles bad not been used. for awaiting the decision of the court in his case.
gentlemen are engaged in light duties which decades, but they continued to be supplied, until would be better done by bank clerks, and the some official of pansual smartness discovered The third engineer of the British steamer ano remark applies to the work of the Embassies that the purchase of expensive articles which Charterhouse, which arrived yesterday, Robert and Legations abroad. Although the Foreign could not be used, and wore costly to atozo, L. Pinkerton, af Glasgow, died on May 6th, Office works upon the principle that its business night be safely discontinued. As the articles were unsaleable they wore burnt and the brass is secret, and that secrecy in a commodity sup and iron used in their constraction sold at The P.M. sir. Manchuria, with wais, &eplied only by the upper classes, it is too sensible
to act upon its own theory. Niue-tenths of the crap prices. business of the Foreign Office is not secret, One-tenth is highly confidential. The one-tenth which is highly confidential passes through the hauda of typewriter girls who draw the modest wages of their kind. and the whole of the Cabinet documents and confidential dispatches to Ambassadors are printed in the barement by honest printers who have never been known to divalge a secret entrusted to them.
and was buried at sea.
STEANDE MOVEMENTS.
from San Francisco to the 19th ult, vie Hone- lula, will leave Yokohama this morning, the Sth inst, via Kuba, do, und in due bere or the
18th jaw.
The C.P.R. sleumer Tariar laft Tokohama on Saturday, the 6th May, p.m., for Victoria The C.P.R. str. Athenian arrived at Yoko hame on Snaday, the 7th May at 8 a.m.
and Vancouver.
NEW JAPANESE WARSHIPS. The work of arming one of the two armoured cruisers, contracted at Kare, is being pushed forward, the Nagasak Press says, in order that she may be completed in the course of the present year. The other one is expected to
ready
about March next. The launching of the Japanese first class battleship Katori, constructed at Viskars yard, England, has been postponed in order that Prince and Princess Arisugana, who will visit way be prosent. She will probably be launched
for so
The results of offivialiam are sometimes amusing and sometimes tragical. For a con- siderable period of time the staff of the Second Army Corps on Salisbury Plain consisted of the distinguished general, two good-looking coat of this institution I have been unable to uides-de-comp, and a ledly tepe-writer. The sacertain, int as the Army Corps system was abolished shortly after it was created, it is well to recall it as an example of the way in which the money is spent.
A fow
A sum of £9,649 was spent on repairs on H.M.S. Hecate, but after the inokey ship added to the number of those which were
on repairing the irreparable Hecate will re- The gentleman responsible for spending 29
ceive his pension and decoration in dos course. In 1905 the Collingwood, a battleship, was out to the scrap hop just after £24,000 had been apeut on her repairs.
£9,000 was spent on the machinery of the Hereules, but after this tidy little fortune bad boos laid out it was decided that the Hercules should never go to sea, nad to sea she never went agate. I have made a calculation that the cost of building ships, obsolete before they are designed, and of repairing ships which could
never be used in modern war, umounts to about
£15,000, sterling the last ten years. If we add this war to the waste of the apkey of the 130 ships that can neither fight nor fly, su of the bricks and mortar for the Navy provided in accordance with the policy which is now discarded, we arrived at a sum wasted during the Japanese Marine Minister, as rauch anval the last decade of £92,000,000,
Two shillings bays for Admiral Yunamoto, efficiency as the British Admiralty succeeds in buying for twenty ahillings. The Japanese destroyed the Russian Float and enabled the Japanese Army to take Port Arthur for a naval expenditure of £2,354,804.
IMPORTS OF RAW CUTTON FROM JANUARY
TO END OF MARCH.
Yen. 1902 872,135 pieuls valued at....19,754.727 1903...789,570 pieds valued at...19,406874 1901...
.. 82,106,425
It will be observed that figures relating to
generally
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weight are net forthcoming for the current year, but in point of monetary value there was an increase of over 60 per ent., and as cotton ruled cheap there must have been a very large increment in the quantity impor. On the other hand, this heavy importation was I have already referred to the fact that Jehn at due to bolligerent circumstances. • It Bail has no baying department. He also has
was mainly attributable to exceptional activity no capital acconst. This plan is convenient to on the side of the spinners. These
use about 1 million war (33 million officials who pay 25a. for a thing worth 158.,
of cotton monthly, but of late their figure and who build ships that discredit any admiral
has shown an increase of from 30 to 40 por cout. and are discarded by men too patriotic to use
which would absorb the greater part of the anwarworthy ships, even though built by them solves If a capital Rant wors introduceed margiu shown in the above table. Then, again, the high price of cotton at the fall of last year manufacture is carried on, and where permanent to every Government Department where
prevented any inlay of large stocks, and there ONLY PIANO SPECIALISTS is here a need which has not yet been fully sup plant is required, the result would be an immediate saving of some £3,00,00 a your plied. In 1902 and 1943 the cotto in stock at
IN HONGKONG : NOT This estimate is arrived at after careful study maka and Kobe aggregated, at the clos of by one of the abloat permanent officials of the
March, from 80,000 to 50,000 Lates (of 360 kin), without including the quantities held by the day, whose name I am not permitted to disclose,
MERE DEALERS, BUY- If Woolwich Arsenal, the small arms factories, mills themselves and in foreign godowns." But and the dockyards were provided with capital this year, even including the mills and the for- sud subjected to independent andit, annual val. eign godowns, there were only 120,00 bales in The cotton-epin- ustion, and competitive working, the British stock at the close of March. taxpayer would find his burdens sensibly lightning industry is, just now giving excelent results in Japan and steps are bing vigor- eue. The absence of a uspital account femis
the number of to unnecessary waste. Condemned Government ously taken to increase stores never realise adequate values. The par- spindles, so that the consumption of raw material chase of condemned stores has made the fortunes would have developed greatly just at the very time when an interruption of supplies seems inevitable. It is much to be regretted in the launches which cost £900 spises for £20 or £30, and obtain most extraordinary bargains interests of the industry. There have not yet The wearisome system of accounts in rogue,
Leon any instances of merchantmen being seized or sunk by the Russians since they passed the originally intended to protect the taxpayer has the opposite result, for the most valuable
Straits of Malacca. But these vessels of te Baltic Squadron have an evil record already, machinery is sold as scrapiron, as it saves
and though they may devote their attention for trouble to officers, who would otherwise hare to explain in half a dozen different columns their the moment to something more vital than com- merce destroying, the strong probability is that setimate of the value of the article and what
if they losa coherence as a squadroo, and cove should be done with it. I have known of ca es
to be able to light stoutly for the mastery of of anununition and stationery being thrown overboard-the first to save trouble, the second the sea, they will have recourse to the semi- to prevent the red tape that would become piratical methods that have hitherto marked The doings of Russian war-ships throughout the necessary if the stationery at the end of a com. mission were taken into port.
presont campaign. That is the Shogyo Shimpo's
England on their way home from Germany, Printers in the basemont should be public school militar ago there was a fire in one of the of a group of aløver men who purchase l-am
on July 4th.
The destroyer strare, constructed and engined at Kure, is to be taken out for a trial on the 27th inst. If the trial is satisfactory she will be commissioned early in May.
Baner in which
That the amount of printing in considerable may be judged of by the fact that every British Ambassador in Europe obtains by messenger &
When the papers regarding any matter reach the War Office in London they are taken to a copy of every dispatch of importance sent to
admin- long passage. Round this passage are many every other British Ambassador. istrative system based on the theory of room, with one room at the top. The series of aristocracy and expense, but worked by recourse rooms thus resembles a syphon. War Office to democracy and fengslis, is one that papwa, if received by A and requiring the illustrates our English table for spending attention of Z, are not sent direct from A to Z. meaer in the wrong place rather than not but are sent all round the syphon. The result spend it at all. To sustain the official theory of the spirit engendered by these practices may it is obvious that the Foreign Ofca typewriter be judged of the following examples girls should be presented at Court, and that the
buildings at Dover Castle. The War men with their names in Debrett and members Office regulations are strict on the subject of at least one good club before they are allowed of fires, and they provide rules as to the a fire shall be treated. to handle the composing stick and the damper The Commanding Officer, addressing his in the Foreign Office cellars.
The absence of a thinking department at the superiors at headquarters, gravely reported Foreign Office sometimes lends to strange in an official dispatch that the cinimissariat results. When the Admiralty took possos. store had been barned down strictly decording sion of the Bay of Wei-hai-wei it suddenly to regulations. The point of the story is THE WANDERING DALAI LAMA,
occurred to our rulers that they had not got that hat the regulations boen got aside Wai-hai-wei itself. The Foreign Offee, how. the commissariat store might have been Although there seems to be a feeling that the over. brought to bear its great influenca, and saved! Dalai Lama of Tibet who ran away from the the town was acquired for £14,897 178. 4. British Expedition last year has been deposed strict each on delivery. After the town and and the Fanshen Lame of Tnabilumbo appointed the bay were required, and some of the buildings to take his place, a Peking correspondent, writ erected. the Treasury, the Foreign Office, er ing on the subjet of the evident reluctance of the Admiralty, or all three, changed their the Dalai Lama to leave Urga for Lhassa, states minds, and neither the town nor the bay that he has not been formally deposed by the considered necessary for the safety of our Imperial Government and that he is being sent interests in the Far East. back to Lhasa to resume his post of Chief The course of business in the Foreign Office Buddhist Pontiff there. The correspondent is that a letter is taken out of ita euvelope by southerly gals sprang up, and the bulk further states that, in spite of his solemn a clerk on £200 a year, is passed on to be of the hay was washed up in Algos Bay. promise to the Imperial Hesident of Urgs, docketed by a clerk on £80, handed to a alerk The bales were collected by an enterprising and the hay was purobased Mongolia, and the Assistant Tibetan Resident on £400 to make a précis of it, and then passed contraster. at Hsining, Kan, to start from Urga for Lunaso on to have a minute made on it by a clerk on by the War Ofes st three times its original on a certain date, the Dalai Lama still liugers 2800; and thus, with a nosy growth of price, and was greedily enton by the horses and in Mongolia and refuses to hudgo." This irrelevant detail, it finally arrives at the table of mules of the Army. mads the two Menchu offcials exceedingly the man who receives £1,200. Then it descenda wroth, with the result that they recently down the same line until it reaches the hands of complaining of the dilatory movements of the girl who typen it, and who is not sellom the Dalai Lama and his broken promise, and most useful, as well as the most comely, link of recommending that he be formally deposed from the whole chain. the Fontificate as a punishment for his remis ness stap
doubtlessly eagerly desired by this Tibetan who does not seen to be desirous of returning to Lhassa, which may mean going back to his death. The recommendation to depose the Dalai Lama has, however, been promptly refused by an Imperiul Rescript which also commanded the memorialist to send the Tibeton back without further delay-N-C. Daily Nerea
During the Boer War a cargo of hay bought by the War Office, and passed as sound, was sent out to Fort Elizabeth, Some of the bay was eatou by the officers' chargera on board. On arrival at Port Elizabeth the whole cargo was the master of the ship was ordered to take condemned in spite of angry protests, and
the vassel twenty miles out to Res and This was done. throw the hay overboard.
The steam winch of the old Factoria and When the ship
Albert cost £1,700 when new. but it was sent for sale as ok iron and was was broken up it was absolutely as good as new, only rescued by a smart officer, who managed to induce the authorities to purchase it from themselves for a trifling sum of money.
This is the way the money goes.
PHILIPPINE BAILWAYS.
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FIRST IMPORTANCE
Some interesting details are published in the Western Electrician of a new power traustmission FACTS OF THE plout in coures of complim at Lawsui, Formosa, work on which was begun be the engin ering department of Forms arly last year. The site selected is about a miles to the south-east of Taiboku, immediately below the jutition of the okusei and Nasei rivers. which form the Shlaten River. Water power will be used, and will be supplied by a cural cut
presented a joint memorial to the Throng the man whe copies it and who delivers it to the istration than the methods adopted for the roads of the Philippines of any other than them the upper source of the Nacsei River.
hortly after Queen Victoria's death the Kansas Legislature sent a message of condo, lenca to King Edward. In a cablegram the King expressed thanks for the loyalty and sym- pathy of the people of Kansas. The word
James J. Hill, the foremost figure in trans- Thoro is no better instance of the way in portation-circles in the United States, deglares which the money gees under War Office admin that it would be a fatal error to build the rail. purchase of land. When a portion of Salisbury standard gange of the world-I fost, 8.5 inches.
The president of the stupendous Great which flows down the mountains in a series of Plain was required by the Wacoffee the oxtremo poverty of the soil, the want of access to Northern railway and steamship system called cascades. Just shota the junction the course of this stream describes a reversed 8, which on Secretary of War, William H. Taft, one market, and facilities for transport rendered. the values of the farms somparatively low. A morning for the special purpose of urging him may be used to illustrate the construction of property liberally estimated at a value of £0.00 not to permit the grave mistake to be made, the canal from the apper point of the fignie to was purchased by the Treasury for the sum of Mr. Hill said it was the coucousus of the ite centre, where the water is brought to the opinion of the most intelligent and most uz opposite side of the river by means of siphon £3411. Loyalty "roused such resentment among the War Office extravagance on Salisbury Plain perienced men in railroad affairs that the day pipes, thence to the lower point of the fignie legislators that the message of condolence was was not ended with the purchase of the land. had passed for the building of narrowgangs to the site of the plant, where it will have s ordered to be expunged from the State records. It is a War Ofiles rule that for married quar- roads exeapt for temporary use or of only a few fall of about 50ft. The length of the cannl is Our Foreign Office clerks thought that Kanaan ters the soil under them is to be cleared out for miles length. He cited the case of Japan 7,2001t., which includes a tunnel of 220ft., and WES a British Colonyan error that the type three or four feet below the surface and the which is gridironed with narrow-gauge railroads 290ft. of two-row siphon pipes, each 5ft. in writer girls upstairs would not have committed, space filled up with concrete. Salisbury Plain and which bitterly regrets not having them of diameter. The width of the canal at bottom is
from 11ft. to 12ft., and the discharge will be ş as they are compelled to pass in elementary is great rock of chalk, which is as good a standard width.
foundation for dwelling houses as sonerste. geography before becoming eligible for employ. The married quarters ou Salisbury Plain have favoured narrow-gauge roads in the Philippines give 100-hores power, but 650-horse power will Nr. Hill said the statement that he had ever 250 cubic feet por second. This is intended to ment in the Government service,
One other point in connection with the been built by the War Ofice at a cost of £600 was untrue. It had come to his ears that this be sufficient for the present rogairomente. The Foreign Office as regards the expenditure of acu. An ordinary builder and architect could statement was in circulation, and he wished in plant will be equipped with two McCormick money to which I wish to draw attention is have put up the same dwellings for £250 apiece. person to deny it. He said that he had never turbines, each of 34 horse power and 450 the case of Uganda, under its management.
The expensive habits of the War Office Au been a believer in any bat the standard rond. refolutions per minute, two three-phase The Uganda Railway, which has cost over paying 80s. for a sovereign's worth of value is In the course of his conversation with Snore-Westinghonsa alternating generators of 250 £6,000,000, could have been built by contract noticeable in many departments. The cointly tary Taft, Dr. Hill said that he had no personal kilowatta, 11,000 volts, sud 150 revolutions per for £2,000,000 or £2,500.000. Tenders wore will not forget that public moneyle the extent interest in the railroads of the Philippines. He winnte, and a McCormick exciter turbine of Chief of the Staff: General Sonkhomlinoff. netoally available for these amounts.
of £10,000,000 was handled during the Boar was a cincere believer in their success but he 49- horse power and 150 revolutions per miante. Assistant Chief of Staff: General Sakharoff.
The State pays its servants by manns of three Wer by an honest officer, whose want of skill was too old to take up such gigantie plans now. Considerable delay has occurred in the arrival Commander of the First Army: General currencies. The private employer can only pay as a buyer cost the country as much as if he But, he said, he was a steamship owner with of some of the equipment from the United Baron Kanltars.
States, and the plant will not be completed in one. A British official is paid first in monor
had been a fraudulent secundral.
intense interest in the future of the islands. Commander of the Second Army
secondly, in the security of the tenure of his.
During the Boor Wer the meat scandals Mr. Hill impressed Secretary Taft with his bufore June or July of this year. It will supply Gripenberg,
office; and thirdly, in the title or distinction ho received a great deal of attention, and after ideas of the coming development of the Philip the electric power for lighting the cities at Commander of the Third Army:
may expect to receive in the grant of his zea! spending overal million ponude in buying pipos, and Secretary Taft said to your corres. Taiheka and Daitotei (Tamani), also for an ice Guerseilemaan.
or his length of sarvice rendering him eligible moat at Bd. which coat the contractors 4d.pondent, after Mr. Hill had left his office, that plant, sawmill, and other works in the city first The Supreme Military Council will be comfor distinction. Of all the servants of the a remedy was adopted. But it is not gamer it cheered his soul to find such faith when others mentioned. The eget, including the constrno- tion of the canal, will be approximately posed of Generale Dragomiroff, Grodekoff, I public the most fortunate is the Attorney ally known that a Boor syndicate bought of less sagacity and experiones doubted,~-
£35,000. Roop, and Komaroff.
General, because he gets all three.
He receives cattle from the military authorities at from Cablenews,
THE RUSSIAN WAR PARTY.
The high appointments in the reorganised Russian army, according to the Petat Parisien, have been definitely arranged as follows:--
Comaudor-in-Chief; The Grand Dake Nicholas Nicolaievitch.
Director-General of Military Operations: General Liniovilch.
:
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