INTIMATION
A. S. WATSON
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRI JAY, AUGUST 9TH 1907.
not after all contain ample provocation for
The Sicilia, from Southampton on September
of October. She will leave again on October 31 with drafts for Fgypt, Ceylon, Singapore, and Hongkong, getting back to Bouthampton with more detaile on January 27.
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OBITUARY.
were certainly not extreine altruists; they
95, will take strafts for Girl, Malta, TELEGRAMS. did not suffer exile for the benefit of the the Jeremiahs of the British press. So long Egypt, and arrivo home with details on the 21st | Japanese, and even the tactful Captain BRINKLEY Admits that there were some abases. In an interesting article in the 00.commercial supplement of the Times of July 8th, he discusses the past and future of the foreign merchant in Japan. After ifty years, it has become a topic of con- eiderable anxiety and conjecture." The foreign middlemon, in the days when the Japanese were incapable of deling the part, took all the risks and couested to the WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS Japanese "an equitable shure of the
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profite." Naturally, the Japanese and foreign definition of what was equitab'e in that muertion varies. There are Japanese necounts extant which give fuller explinn- tions of the native desire to dispense with the foreign middlewan than Captain
BRINKLEY gives. He sags:
The foreign community lived almost wholly isolated. They did wot of deliberate choice segregate themselves from the people among whom they had cast their lot, but ali the condi. tions of their existence cranbined to differentiate
them, and that, too, in a manner eminently
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as Japan's trade with England continues to expand, it does not seen of national meat whether the go-betweens he Japaneio or foreign, other things as credit and sol- vency, being equal. Beyond that, however, Captain BRINKLEY Hea
Another interesting discovery has been made room for hope by the German arcbiologinis at Athens, who even for the foreign merchant, who, he says, are exenvating what is believed to be the site of ought to set about exploiting the industrial the palace of King Nestor, near Pilos field, by entering into partnership with number of prehistorie jars have been found Japanese manufacturere. "It unst be containing figs and grains of wheat. The cop coalition, not competition." The foreign feats of the jars were almost petrified, but could capitalist carrot sterged alon as a manu-
be easily i entitled. The archen logists estimate that the tigs and wheat have been in the jara facturer in Japan, and, the Japanese, for 300 years. although progressing, ons 'proceed slowly without him.
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Associated with Japaness of the better classes, af raiga capitalist could not only count with confidence of the smooth working of kie ontor. priso, but mizit also exercise whatever measura of control seemed wholesome. This is the field which now invites the foreign capit-liat and expert. Ha mat conse to inake the distribution of Japansus products his chief business and manst himself be a co-prafucer
In 1911, Japan will recover her tarifi aut nomy, and we may assume that she will exercise it in the souse of imposing protective duties, so far as saab a
paliey can be made to consist with the collection of reveans. Already she has manipulated her statutory triff in such a manner that it afforda a considerable moueurs of protection to her own producers, and the conventional lariff will fare similarly when it becomes accessible. The present therefore, is the time for foreign capitalists and exports to bid for a share in the industrial development now in progress as a natural sequel of the late war.
calculated to estranga Japanese sunți usut. In the first place, they acknowledged no respon sibility
towards the lane of the land, this emption being based on su assumption of superiority necessarily galling to a proud sud patriotic nation like the Japanes. In the econd, the impering dimension of their hones, the comparatively costly and ostentatious fashion of their lives, and the fact that they had virtually o aucial intercourse with the people of the country, all tended to create au impression, ou trade they controlled, and. the one hand, of deriving large profit from the
The Crescent" cruiser, Capt. B. Nugent, on the ether, oflaft Plymouth on July 12th, for Singapore with despising and looking down on the sation whose relief crows for the Chiun and Australia hospitality they கjoy-d. Then into the manner of coldwing the trade practions Squadrons, gradually obtruded themselves, which helped to accentuate the si anticu.
are the two chief staples of export, and in the Silk and tea handling of both of these a system ery irksome to the Japanese had to be adopted. As to silk, none but hand-roled bo'ng originally procar. able, and either Japans sericulturists nor Japanese middlezea having a dus appreciation of uniformity of quality or faithfulness to sample, the foreigu exporter found it Docekary to take the various parcels of silk into his own $30.00 warehouse, and hold them for inspection, poederal Grodekoff is to be nominated Viceroy,
Either by itself or mixed with Sodawater or Ginger Beor it makes i mest WHOLESOM
REFRESHING SUMMER
PALATABLE
BROEKAGE.
al
PER CASE OF 8 DOZEN
-PER DOZEN
was
Secretary, arrived here yesterday. He is a Mr. Brackenbury, the Governor's Private brother to the lady who accompanies His Ficoll-ney and Lady Lugard to Hongkong.
The Ru-eian Government contemplates the
East, with reorganisation of the Viceroyalty of the Far ila hondarters at Harbin.
It is stated that several local gentlemen have
ing the completion of which process no bargain was concluded. On the whole this syster 4.00 bomostly pursued by foreign loent merchants, been approched by the Government to com
but some abuses undoubtedly disfigured it as when silk was held wol and ly for inspection, but tsuit the market-and these abuse, combin. ed with the obviously objectionable character
A. S. WATSON & CO., of anoh a method from the producer's point
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members of a committee which will be prasided over by the Colonial Treasurer, to inquire inta the question of currency reform.
A marriage has been armaged between Staff Surgeon 4. M. Darinell, Royal Navy, only son of the late Mr. Edward C. Dartnell, of Callao, Peru, an1 Margaret Ethel, third daughter of the late Mr. David Gilmour and of Mrs. Gilmour, Micklebam Downa, near flocking (lata of Shanghai).
of view, gradually exited among the Japanese a strong ambition to get the export bus into their own bende. First, however, un attempt was made to modify the system itself by establishing a Japanese conditcoing house at Yokubame, and claiming for its seals the same validity as that possessed by the marks of the foreign inspectors, This project, vehemently resisted by the foreign middlemen, led to & soms- what bitter contest, which ended in establish- ing the old system on a firmer basis than the Colonies, is setting to work in earnest with Herr Deraburg, the Secretary of State for ever, and in strengthening the determination of Osly commasienfions rédating to the arus "oluma the Japanese to establish themselves indep nd-regard to the development of the German ently as silk exporters, In the case of tus, the colonies. He is depided to appoint several conditions were even more striking. The Commercial Attachés to assial the Governors Japanese producer's sun-fired loof being anft of the greater German protectorates and for export in that condition, had to be re-fired in Yokohama, and this is the re-bring ware- houses of the foreign middlemen. They took the various paresis of res, practically without discrimination, and damped them inte pans, where they were manipulated by a partionary dirty tribe of the commonest labourers of both
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A certain proportion of sulphate of copper having been added to impart the colour which alone appealed to Amorisan taste, the re-fired staple was made up into parcels and exported under the use of a foreign middle man. Such a system not only discouraged all individual effort on the part of the producer, but also added largely to the cost of the staple Here again, then, the Fapanese found a strong incentive to take the basinges out of foreign hands. The same story, though in less striking terms, might hs told of almost every branch of the country's orar-sca commerce, so that, on the opo side, the Japanes struggled perpetually to organize a system of "direct export," so the other, the foreign middleman clung with tsaacity to the business he had developed.
A coolis was charged fore Mr. B. H. J. firing a revolver, to the danger of persons, and Gempertz at the Police Court yesterday with with being in possession without a permit. His brother brought the weapon from England recently, and the defendout was having a little target practice with it when arrested. Ifis Worship imposed asian of $50 with the alter- native of two months' imprisonment on the fret charge; and on the second the fino was 810 or 21 days. The arms and ammunition were o unfixested.
The suspicious movemonte of a Chinese tailor at Wanchain Wed esday caused a castable to detain and youstion him sa to a bundle b wae carrying under his armo. he was taking home a bundle of clothes which The tailor said
his brother had given him, but, as some of the
articles were woman's wearing apparel, the con stable took the tailor to No. 2 Police Station. There he learned that a report had been made appoured and claimed the bundle the tailor was about stolen clothing, and when the owner
charged with larceny. He appeared before Mr.
LONDON, August Sth. The Marquis of Bristol and Maharajah Datin are dead. Marquis of Bristol, was 73 years of age. He Frederick William John Harvey, third was Lord Lientensat of sa Tatk since 1888 nad Hradi ary High Steward of La berty of St. Edmund. He was M.P. for West suffolk, 1859-64, and owned about 32,000 acres }
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LONDON, August -th. The Kaisers Cup at the Cowes won by Lord
Regatta
has been Dunraven's Cariad.
ANTWERP STRIKE.
Loxpos, August 5th. The strike of dock labourers Antwerp has now become general."
MOROCCO.
Lospas, August 8th. French-statesmen are offering a
at
day, was found guilty and sentenced to six II. H. J. Comp riz at the Police Court yestersurances that the independence of week's imprisonment and six bone stocks,
The United States Government has, the Central News says, placed considerable orders in Britain for the supply of Welsh steam coal. Que order, in fact, amounts to 4,0 tons. The coal is to be despatched immediately in specially chartered steamers to the Philippines. Simil. taneously large quantities of coal bave been ordered from. Newcastle, New South Wales, to be sent to certain ron lezvous ou the West Coast of South America. The tension between Japan and America is reflected at Lloyd's in the fact that underwriters are now asking from Is. Bd. to 2s fid. per can't, to carer war risks on
Morocco will be maintained.
NAVAL COLLISION,
Losbox, August Sth. The destroyer Quail, as the result of a collision with the Allenline, has been wrecked.
BELFAST RIOTS.
LONDON, August 8th. The labour troubles at Belfast Manila. the voyages of the colliers from this country having culminated in riots, troops are
A Congress emposed of representatives of the traffic departments of all the Russiau railways has just been sitting in the Ministry of Ways of Communication. The Congross bas paid special attention to the project of establishing a direct through servios of train a between St. Petersburg and Visdivostock onrriages in Moscow, which is the starting-plasə without passengers being obliged to changa
calonics. These Attaches are to be practicallway line, running almost dus eastwards from
for the "Siberise Express,"
But tho now men, and that the right kind of man may b 8. Petersburg to Vologda, Vialka, and Perm, sent out, Herr Dernburg intends to appoint will join the Siberian Railway at the Siberian only the younger sons of leading Hamburg frontier station of Chelyabinsk. Thus, Moscow merchants.
will be avoided, and the journey will be shortened" by tow hours by the now through service. The new express to Vladivostock will leave St. Peforsburg twice a mouth for the prasout.
For some time the Admiralty Committee have been masking inquiries as le the erection of a Torpedo factory ou the Firth of Clyde, and they hare, it is said, reported favourably in a site at Loch Long, almost opposite Fort Matilds, Consular Report, made but slow progress since The Japanese paper industry bsa, ezyes British
deep water and a long range, all of which areless, want of experience must have sesonated for which is a comparatively secluded area with its commsuumeni. In the bagian ng, doubt. essential for torp do tests. At present, it is anduratood, the Admiralty contemplate spending 30,000 on the preliminary building operatione. The site is capable of extension.
this; but the chief difficulty has ben daarnaas of material. At present the industry is not with out promise. Should the scheme for manufac turing pulp oat of bamboo grass mature, of progress
now holding the rity,
REUTER'S SERVICE.} THE BRUSSELS SUGAR CON-
VENTION.
THE MEETING OF THE TEAR AND KAISER,
THE HARBOUR MYSTERY.
MURDERED WOMAN NOT IDENTIFIED: NO ARREST YET,
Tho sbooking crime brought to light by tho discovery on the C.P.B. steuner Manterglo on Wednesday afternoon, as reported in the Daily Press on Thursday morning, is still shrouded in mystery, and promises to be a oortaimal that the body of the womsa when difficult casa to unravel. Wo base since na-
found was so decomposed that identification was practically impossible.
It now transpires that the box containing the murdered woman was taken aboard the steamer on Sunday by a European, who was particularly auxions that it should be slowed away in the bold. As it
was stated to be luggage, however, this was net lone. It was placed in the luggage room, and ou Wednes day the offausire odour led to a closer inspre- tion of the trank, from which blood was found to bo oozing. In these sspicious circum. stances, the Chief Offee seolded to open the box. The ship's carpenter, Erasmus Lorson, was instructed to remove the li When this was done the decomposed body of the woming was revealed to the horritod onlookers. It had hon doubled up, mu crammed into the bor When the trunk
Was
removed to the mortuary and the woman takon ont and examined. it That she had been strangled,
was found
bairbrush heing used as a lever to tighten it ̧ A piece of calion was tied round her neck, n Her face was vory much bloated and as previously stated, unrecognizable. Her only garment was a chemise, and although this bore an initial, it could not be deciphered owing to the blood atains. The murdered woman bad adburu kair, and was about fire fast nine inches in beight...
Sergeant Watt, of the Yaumati Police Stations Allar removing the body to the mortuary
notitled all the Palios Stations of the occurrence, so that no time might be lost." in searching for the murderer. The theory is however, that he has left the Colony, haying had ampls time to do so sines depositing the trunk ou the Monteagle. The polios ara vet likely to make much progress in their search until the identity of the woman is discovered. It is beliored she cannot have been a resident of Hongkong, otherwise she might have an reported as missing.
remote.
LATER.
LONDON, August 6th.
We understand the police have obtained a Lord Elgin nanounced in the House of description of the European who took the Lords that a protocol modifying the Sugar nak on board the steamer, and are endeavour- Convration had been drafted by the Brusselsing to trace his subsequent movements. They September, if newpted by the Powers, Commission and would be signed on the latare also in search of the sampan by which tha trank was conveyed to the Montewyle, hoping thus to obtain further particulars about the man who is now very much "wanted." He has had four days' start, however, and if his future LONDON, August ich. movements are conducted with the skill which Semi-official statements in Berbu and St.euabled him to ship his victim on board the Swiermünde covered all questions of mo Petersburg declare that the discussions at steamer, the chances of capture are very
partire for the peace of the world. They is. ment, and testified to the desire of th
recoguised that the Russo-Japanese agree nowise inedified existing alliances, and would be removed. Mach, again, is expectedment, and the prospective Anglo-Russian of Hokkaido if it fulfils all that is claimed agreements were most conductive to the for it a source of supply of material for maintenance of industry has certainly had a good deal of many years will be obtained.
The paper
orordone. A change from 21,0 6000 to close life infused into it during the last year but one caunot help wondering whether it is not being
Japanese market stone would scarcely seem on £3,000,000 invested isa vary great one, sufficient to make it profitable, and Japan is far however events may turn out, it is certain that from being to a position to export. But the Japanese manufacturer aims at monopolising importar. Whether he will do so or not is fog the home market to the exclusion of the foreign
time to decide.
the main obstacle in the way
The
Commenting upon the proposed despatch of au American fent to the Pacific, the Temp observes that no one eau ceatest the right of the United State Government to tak this course
peace.
THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.
Tapos, August 6th. After posting, guards at the Consulates;] the French battleship Geliter bombarded the Maorish quarter (of Casablanca) and its surroundings. It is believed that 150 Moors were killed by the bombardment.
ACCIDENT IN A DESTROYER.
Loxbox, August 6th. The oil fuel of H. M. S. Spiteful ignited, and two stokórs were killed and four injured. THE KING'S CUP AT COWES,
Lospes, August 6th. The Meter won the King's Cup at Cowes.
1 p.m. Last night piersistent rumours of an arrest
enquiry we learned that as yet nothing of the having been made were in circulation; but on
zort had been done. We believe that a man fell ander suspicion, and was under police observation for n time, Lill the authorities became satisfied that he could not have beau implicated. The "American" said to ba ve belt arrested has no existance, save on ike tengu-8 of rumour.
of the existence of a valuable clan which the We are informed on unimpeachable authority
criminal or criminals, with extraordinary carolessassa, left behind.
It would, however, be extremely injudicious at The present juncture to divulge the nature The pablin may rest assured that the police of it, and we have been regnested not to do so
nre well advanced ju their investigations, ansi that Justice is not likely to be baulked in this instance.
Dr. Ernst von Hallo, of the Berlin University, In 1893, the Japanese had managed to doma tio industries, in discuming the enormous an authority on International commerce aud 1 the history foreign merchants in
get into their own hands seventeen per cent. Japan is ever. to be written, commeal wo
increase of England's foreign trade during the of a total trade of £18,000,8m; to-day fiscal year just completed, says: "Eugland is Capt. BRISKIET, for it is a subject to be they have forty per cent. of a total of foolish to rejoice over the sale of so maak tranted with tact, and the famous Tokyo £81,000,000. It is obvious that the foreign result will probably be that the countries to machinery used in textile industries, as the soldier-journalist is full of that. At the middleman's grumbles are not altoge her which they are exported will become rivals of Lime, the student auxions for warranted; bere are still considerable Bagland in the markets of the world: By the truth, the whole truth will be pickinga left to him, though it is admitted exporting coal in large quantities England is in a difficulty. The Japanese historia that in time these must be further reduced. weakening her own ressatoes, a fact which will will be of #3 Ne to him for his Not only have the Japanese succeded in
semo day cause her regret." One of the largost ayount as tinged with a bitter resentment; securing the confidence of Americaa buyers Costinental col rehaute, speaking of the and historians like Capt. BR.xzey, where undergono foreign expert examination, but
for raw silk which has not previously great scarcity of coal on the Continent, saya the foreign merchant is concerned, are to also they obtain from their own
that one thing which has helped to matain the his faults a little blind. Of one side of the age foreign exporter can get
more liberal accommodation than the aver- banks
high price of coal is the raising of the Welsh miners' wages 11 per cent. story of the relations of Japanese and foreign hama or Kobe banks. Thus the Japanese are condition amongst the English minera," ke
frum Yoko-
"For it is a curions merchants the public has been fed to able to column a longer intersal of time for added that they do not work to sare, bat wi
seeking a Jarket in the United States, an The Japanese lack of commercial advantage by no means inconsiderable. There they have earned enough mong they, tika a integrity" is a string that has born frayed is also a further weight in their side of the little holiday. As a resat, eiacs the increas
scale. They are a with too mach harping, and it has been a the sericulturiste against the security of the and this keep up the price."
position
lend money to in their wages, the output of coal has been less,say more than it was possible to contest Eng- very rare satisfaction to encounter such fair-at rates considerably lower than those charged latter's crop, which thus comes into their hands
land's right to redistributs her naval forces as
-The instruments of the central seismographic minded Coponents as Mr. R. D. RORISON, to the foreign exporter. In fact, the day loo
Sir Thomas Hanbury, of La Mortola, Venti. is that, contrary to the wishes of President Ishe did recently. What is to be feared, it says,
station at Hamburg on July 8th repeatedly whose testimony we published a week or not seem to be far distant when the Japanese miglia, Italy, died on March fast, leaving a
registered severe earthqasks shocke extending two ago. It is obvious that the Japanese so far at any rate, us the American market is will made un June 7th, 1975, is exeentors are
exporter will control the whole supply of silk, fortune valued at £798,221. By his holograph may regard the measure as an ensouragement in Roosevelt and bis Ministers, the Californians
over a period of more than two hours. The terbant was for a good while in a state of concerned, and will set what limits ke pleasss directal to dispose of his mortal retasins by Francisco.
A Manchester correspondent writes:
shocks must have occurred at a distance of about tha'r enduet Lowarth the Japanese at San to our old goods shipments show that we have took place on inhabited land and not in the The figures for the past six months rolsting8,000 miles from iTamburg, and if the shocks the portion obtainable by his foreign com pipilage to the foreign merchant, Indeed, petitors. The ease of ien promises to be some.
cremation, interring the ashes beneath the the Japanese position may represent the lion pounds as compared with 363 millions India, p.m. The disturbace reached its height at
It may also be apprehended that kept pace in yardage with the same period in much has been made of his "ingratitude" what similar. It no longer requires to be carried pasement of the terracotta kiosque iu bis despatch of the American battleship; as a
199, but the valves are larger, namely, 3 mil. effect.
on they must have had a most destructiva in learning all he could from the foreigner,ing. The Japanese themselves are not quite Dame Katharine Aldam Hanbury, £5,000 a year, attributed to Admiral Deway and Admirs remarkably well, and su bes Italy and Morocco registered sa escillation of six millimetros. to a foreign settlement for re-liring and pack garden at La Mortola. Ho gave to his wife, provocation. The Temps considers the language bas absorbed less. Turkey and Egypt have done shortly before 3.53 pm, when the instruments The shocks begin at 8h. 3min. 27se. on the whole, has kept up her takings, but Caina 8.40pm., and the most powerfal shock occurred and then seeking to oust is teacher. For competent to carry out the operations, and the lesscas he burned, the teacher is bound
they are forming organisations to export the in addition to what she will weive from the Sakumo'o in recent interviews as malculated to Loaf direct from the chief prodasing districts so funds of her marriage settlement, and the use fan the flame, and prefers the robust optimism ments keep up to a remarkable extent. We ex to accept a certain amount of responsibility, eliminated. They bare not yet achieved much Cee other property at Ventimiglia and Shang could not be a more propitions moment for each
as well as Persin. Most of the foreign outlet,The disturbance ended shortly after 19 p.m. that the foreign middleman will be entirely of the Palazzo Orengo and coutent; to his son.
have taken freely. In cotton yarn our ship and the implication is obscure, if the success in the matter of
of Admiral Brewason in saying that there ported daring the past six months 113,000,00 had clummeter given to the pupil be of their spinning and weaving factories. These hai, and on the death of his mother the Palazzo
exporting the products
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. as compared with 1000,000 in the first established. If he had to pay as dearly for and staffs annually, and export about one-
raanufacturs some 20 milions sterling of yarns Orsago; to his children Daniel, Horses, and his lenruing as the Japanese historian tells forth of that
The Apear str. 4rratoon Apear from Yoke- with all nationsare of the most pacifis character has taken very extensively,
as compared with £5,75000 la 1906, Germany amount. Thus us, we can hut be surprised and gratified foreiga hands, but there are evidences of a
export business has remained chiefly in Home for Cildren, 20,000 tools; to the Socioly
dous badly, chietly in that the Japanese commercial graduate is strong resolve to alter that state of affairs, Knowledge Among the thiness, 2000 tuols; for the Diffusion of Christiaa ani General
The slr. flamery mshire left Singapore on papers are disp sed to do,
tezfile machinery. Ja Jane the figures ware ng worse than he is said to be. The importers This not very cheerful for the British to Renzo Ronetti, 10,000 lire; and legacies to
more reasons for confidence thin grounds for of last year.
There are £610,000, as compared with £21,000 in Juuo or about Tuesday the 13th instant at nova. and exporters of the early days in Japan merchant in Japan. certainly, but it does children.
servants. The residue he left to his four apprehension. The state of off.ira is, however, this half-year are Russis, France, China, Japan, on Thursday the 8th inst, and may be expected
The principal essos of increase
The LG.M. str. Prinz Waldenzar left. Kobe ono on which it is desirable to keep a close eye. Amaries, and Australie. Germany shows a
falling of.
here on or about Tuesday the 13th iast.
to
COTTON GOODS SHIPMENTS.
Mix
a demonstration as the relations of America mouths of Ing year. The values are £7,90000, | kaps and Kobe, Icft Kobe on 8ch inst, 6.m., und
morning
Hilda Beatrice other property in Italy and at! It adds: We must, therefore, not exaggerate and Russia. India has sud so has Holland may be expected here on or about 12th lost, at far the Shauglai; to the Thomas Hanbury School and the gravity of the situation, as certain news Madras. We continue to ship more fronty of Wedaosder the 7th insfaut, and is dus here on