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to the two countries. The genius of the two peoples in this respect affords a curious instance of divergences mutually supple menting one another. Unlike the English, the French have a habit of preserving their bullion intact, while the English as per-
["DAILY PERIS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.] STARTLING DISCOVERY IN PORTUGAL.
mme number of months require to be filled. It has been decided to forma a n War Ofis TELEGRAMS. The tendency to safeguard whatever gold is branob, known as the Territorial Forces Sub available has, however, had a disastrous counts of the county smoolations.
Division, with a civilian stuff to audit the so- effect on the population st large, inasmuch as there is a general tendency to reduce to a minimum all current expenses and in Lord Li Ching-fang, Chinowo Minister in
Chinese proposal to establista a Čonsulats soma- British Government has consented to the where in Australia...
&C sistently seek to economise it by kooping consequence thousande of oxalinary, rege London, has informed the Waiwapa that the
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it liquid. The result has been that of late earners are thrown out of employment years many-able financiers have viewed without any realised surplus of capital to with apprehension the small reserves fall back on Here again the impossiblity habitually kept by the Bank of England;
of separating osuse and effect i-iurases the which, notwithstanding the enormous in-houty of effecting relief. The throwing crease in the volume of trade which has men is on one side the direct effect of out of employment of thousan is of working marked the last half century, have acarcely increased need of gold, while on the other Throne as being the most suitable man for the-
increased in em unt; and many schemes have been suggested for increasing our liquid assets. Notwithstanding these efforts the amounts, though they have considerably per case, per case. increased lately in their totals, have by no means grown in proportion with the in. 1 doz.gle. 2dox.ptscrement of the trade, so that when a sudden $85 effort has to be made, as in the present 10.40 case, to guard the interests of the trado at somo locality abroad, the whole home trade a momentarily disordered, and the ordinary facilities can only be obtained at ruinous 20,00 rates of discount.
$7.50
9,00
12,00
LARRIVET
18.00
CHATEAU MOTTON
D'ARMAILHACQ
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+
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CANET
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CHATEAU RAUZAN
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30,00
44:00
50.00
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If, however, it have become customary 24.00 in England to carry on vast operations on a minimum of actual coin, so much so as occasionally to come within dangerous jimits of reaching the bottom, the system of huge,corporations working on each other", presumed condition of financial stability, and by such measures striving to economise actual capital, has been carried to a still greater ertent: and this on account. of the prevailing custom of concentrating the business of the country, even iu matters of retail, in the hands of large trusts"-many with nominal capitals greater than that of most European states, has been carried to an extreme. If it could be assured that behind the nominal capital. of many of these vast undertakings there A were any available liquid assets, the evil
OUR CLARE TS, INCLUDING THE LOWEST PRICED, ARE or EXCEPTIONAL VALUR, AND GUARANTEED TO THE GENUINE PRODUCT OF THE JUICE OF THE GRAPE.
CLARETS
FROM
THE
CELYBEATED
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200 WELL KNOWK CONNOISSEURS Would be minimised: but many recent ex-
TO
TO
NEED COMMENT, AND CONFIDENTLY
pecial Com Yousef has Prominent Chinese merchants in Siam, to the recommended Mr. Liu Tash-san, one of the
Post of Chiuse Consal in Bangkok,
Works, is dying of cancer. The Pops inquires Bignor Gianturno, Italian Minister for Pablio
daily as to his condition. These inquiries are the fleat example of the kind from the Papacy towards a Minister of the King since the fell the temporal power of the Holy See.
of
The Canadian Government has come to an
flew, and thereby increasing the stringency cannot but have the effect of diminishing the of the market. country su remote from the contingencies It is thus that even a
that have created the present panis as China is made to suffer for the sins of the falsa financial system of the United States. For the first time, probably, in the fiunneil bistory of China, the Government has found itself called upon to take measures to case the strain in Newchwang. This may be the beginning of a happier era for Chim,ment of the claims for damaga sustained by but such measures, unless undertaken with Japanese in the riots at Vancouver lastsummer. The total amount claimed was $13,500 (£2,70)) questions at the bottom of all these wave-with the awards. a more profoand knowledge of the economic bat all the Japanese claimants are satisfied
of more harm than good; still it is well meste, it is well to recall, may be productive that Government should awake to some sense of its responsibility, and the effort is
agreement to pay $10,775, (24,155,) in settle-
of Bt.
Beaudon Edward Showell, vinar
The engagement is sxuounced of the Bay Saviour's, Batteries-park, aldent son of the late Rev. Frank Showell, of Loddiewall, South Devon, and Mrs. Showell, of Greenhithe, and Catherine Dorothy, second daughter of Cap- tain Charles Vincent Lloyd, of Hongkong,
one of the signs that the conscience of the Government is at last awakening. We have always been of those who hoped for the best, sad are not yet prepared to give up reform in China as hopeless or impossible. Therend Mrs. Lloyd, of 29, Prince of Wales-Man is the stuff there, but there is vast accumula
slona, Battersea-park. tion of via inortia to be overcome, and Chios evidently, though am dat many mistakes largely proceding from long disuse, it evidently beginning to discover that she is not yet dead as a nation.
Now York Gas Trust is at Inst [November 81 The long drawn-out litigation against the approaching a conslation, and it in anticipated that the combine will be very heavily maloted, The action taken has been brought about The German Hail of the 5th November eren entitled to make a greater charge than 80 cents owing to the contention that the Trust is not delivered in London on the 6th inst
per 1,000 for its gux, whereas thần standmed hai been exceeded entirely at the pleasure of those in power, and; sa it is allego), the law has boun broken in the grating of rebates. If an unfavourable decision is given the Trust will be liable to a fios of $393,007. --
Last week there were no cases of communis.
WE Carposés have shown that frequently, if notable disease recorded at Hongkong. RECOMMEND TREN A in variably, such is not the case, and thit MATURE AND IN FINE CONDITION.
the trusts" have, too often, been like, a pack of cards resting on one another for support, and as soon as one was displaced A.S. WATSON & CO., | the rest finding nothing solid to rest of Peking without delay.
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At the Government Civi: Hospital, on Bunday the 8th December at 5.56 p.m., the wife of
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It is reported from Peking that in order to confer with him upon the Chinese immigration question, the Ministry of Forolga Affairs kot. commissioner in South Africa, to proceed to asked-H. E. La Yak-lin, spoil Cainele
Pollock, K.C.
Campbell of the Custom Service, whose death It has been suggested to us that the Mr. has been reported by Reuter, is in all probability Mr. J. D. Campbell, C.M., and not Mr. S. Campbell. The former for upwards of thirty five years has been the non-resident Secretary of the Customs in London. He left Chiusia 1871 and the London office was opened in 1874 with Mr. Campbell as Secretary, a post which he has Mr. Campbell was chief scoretary to the Inspectorate General, Peking, in which post W succeeded by the present occupant, Sir Robert Bredon..
CORRESPONDENCE. CONFUCIUS: AN ANNIVERSARY, [TO THE EDITOR OF THÌ “DÀILY PRESE”...). SIR-To-day, Sunday-socording to tha Chinese the fourth day of the eleventh moon-- LONDON, December 9th.
in kalendered as the birthday of Confusluq,-and- A tremendous sensation has been following random notes, which I hope you will I have spout the evening jotting down the caused by the announcement that and a corner for. Confucius was teacher, mage, cealed under the Royal box in the his birth and life, like that at other men's number of bombs were found con- Philosopher, and above all, gentleman. Son of ripe Soldier-bere, and of a wise young mother, theatre at Lisbon.
THE NATAL RISING.
with regard to the rising, has fallen
LONDON, December 9th. Dinizulu, the chief whose loyalty,
under grave suspicion, has been sum moned to surrender. If he fails to obey an immediate attack on his kraal is to be made.
OUTRAGE IN INDIA.
LONDON, December 9th. An unsuccessful attempt to wreck a train in which the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal was travelling is reported..
man, has been made the subject of much myth and legend. The popular weakness for the lova-child se prodigy baa not spared, even bis legitimacy, He was delightfully human, with
who treat children as uniform vessels in which all his precocious and unusual wisdom. He was he know better than our modern educationalists, a willing teacher at twenty-two, and even thou
to orom uniform msaxures of knowledge. "When I have presented one corner of a.
subject to any one, and he cannot from it barn the other three, I do not repeat, my lesson
At 28, he had all the cocksuranssa of modern thirty. He claimed then that all his convictions were fized. In such a shrewd mind we can well afford to excuse a youthful pose or two. Alző, like other historical obaraoters, ko auffers from the frequent misunderstandings and misreport- again by having some of his finest marim ings of disciples, jest as like others, he anfforn stereotyped on the tongues of pseudo-admirers--- of a people who patter rather than practice. How many "boys" and servants thanklessly take an unearned mouthly Honmska " who have
LANCASHIRE COTTON STRIKE. learned to repeat that a superior man will
Ponds Soma
LONDON, December 9th. The reported settlement of the Lancashire cotton strike does not seem to have been wholly effective. Sixty thousand employees at Oldham have sincé come out.
[REUTER'S SERVICE.] THE NAVY.
LONDON, December 7th. The new British Destroyer Tartar on her trial trip made 35.952 kusts per hour.
MR. TAFT'S TOUR
LONDON, December 7th Mr. Taft has left Berlin for Hamburg, that his tour had any political significance, route to Amercia. Interviewed, he denied except in regard to the Philippines, the development of which was satisfactory There was no question of abandoning or of selling the islands.
THE UNREST IN ZULULAND.
only receive reward for services which he has done." Some of his teachings are, according to the sophists who are common to all moral cults, "too extreme," too impracticable to be observed
anything more than a worthy ideal.
Even in his time he experienced the type of the young
man that had great possessions. The Duke of Tra ploaded: I am old I cannob-use-his dootrice Confusius has moreover the pos terity that other sagen have had, generations. that cheerfully emphasise palatable portions of his teaching and ignore others. Filial piety lika sabbatarianism, has been overworked; and the comment of Confucius on the father who bað.
not taught his son to be filial is kept in the background by Chinese parents and tohers. In adversity Confusins bore himself like Job and the guntioman he was, and though Dr. Legge was not favourably impressed by the details of his general demeanour, it is japonrîble thorough gentleman, who could appreciate the corned with greater matters. Fall of awe," little nineties of life even while so much con- to read them without-forming a pisture of a
rans the modern ritual of his worshippers, "we
sound our diucas and bells," but it is to be feared he gets a great deal of lip-service. Good sayings may be echoed so often that the translation of them into conduct is apt to be overlooked, in which particular, of course, neither the Confucian calt nor the Chinese
Zululand is quiet, but the military pre-that he had not attained to the character of LONDON,. December 7th. people is singular. Even the Sage himself, It is officially announced in Durban that with humility that I foudly hope was not merely an explanation and an excuse, nimitted
bave severally collapsed. As is but natural under auch conditions, gold, being the only At the annual meeting of the Odd Volumes, article on which any edifice of stability Society, held at the office of the Hon. Mr. H. could be founded, has appreciated in value. Pollock, K.C., Bank Baillings, last night. the following officers were elected for the en, proportionably with the necessity of obtain suing year :-President, His Excellency the ing it, and this, of course, means a shrink-Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard: Vice-Presidetor since retained. When he left China age in the present value of all other sat, Hon. Mr. F. H. May, Treasure, Mr., commodities which may come into com.
W. H. Paroolt; Hop, Secretary, Hon. Mr. petition with it, such as stocks and shares clearly separate cause and effect, as for and metais generally. It is here difficult to
insta ce in the case of copper, the fall in the artificially enhanced value of which had much to do with the starting of the financial panic. It is none the less true that the later fall in valus of the metal is largely found guilty and sentenced to six weeks' predominate, are the favourites, and for ladies payment in consequence of the commercial his ggon to a star”; or, as Dr. Legge quotes
On Saturday s antire was caught in the net
of pleking a pocket in Bonham Strand white reference to the patice records showed that he husband's salary, the wife of an assistant the procession was parting that way. A Hard put to it to dress properly on her had been banished for a similar offenes are stage-manager in Faris hit upon an ingenious years previously. He appeared before Mc. F.scheme. In the small theatre in that city A Hazeland at the Polias Court yesterday, was
plays in which horrors, murdere, and axioides imprisonment with hard labour.
the effect of the enhanced demand for more gold. Tin has followed on the same lines, wood, along the Frays near Ship. Street on A coolie who was pushing a truck loaded with and 90 has silver: and this latter baa gaaday afternoon came in contact with trans grievously affected the markets in China, car No.9, and damaged the car to the extent of where silver continues to be the arbiter of $25. The owner of the truck paid half this trade. That this fall in silver is immedia. tely the effect of the enhanced demand for gold is curiously exemplified in the one case where silver is of valus independent of its use in the arts. The exchange price of gold as a metallu comparison with the
Nosan, of a son,
MARRIAGES.` On December 3rd, at Shanghai, Aragaruk- KOFERT, second surviving son of the late F. W. U. von Stockhausen and Mrs. von Stockbanson of Hongkong, to MART ELIZABETH, only daughter of Captain Klopfer, of the China Merchants' price of silver, merely as buliion, has been Stasm Navigation Company, and Mrs. Klopfer,
of Shanghai.
DEATH,
On December 6th, in London, WA
STEWART YOUNG senior partner of Messrs. Vilman & Co.
The Daily Press.
steadily rising, but the same result has not
amount, and the man who borrowed it the other half. Mr. F. A. Hassland yesterday ordered
reckless driving. the coolie in charge to pay silae of $10 for
gambling warrant at No. 28, Wing Fung On Sunday Sergeant Lee went to execute a
found that in possession of 17 bits nada quantity of screws, Street. He did not find any gamblers, but the tenant of the house was
to faint daring the performance is to the managers the surest sign of success. The assistant stage-manager's wife saw her oppor
would go home saying the play was 60 tunity, and hired herself out to faint in theatres at the proper moment. Spectators bloodeardling that a lady was overcome and had to be carried out. Back as advertisement is enough to fill & honse.
parations are not relaxed,
ING. Daily News Service,
FINANCIAL DEPRESSION-IN
MANCHURIA,
TOKYO, December 3rd. Two native banks in Kirin have suspended depression.
HOTEL FIRE AT KOBE,
TOKYO, December 3rd. Fire broke out in the Oriental Hotel, in Kobe, this morning, and the nne was des. No lives were lost, but the damage was by no
troyed.
meate small.
THE TOKYO BANK RATE.
SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.
MISIONART FESTIVAL,,
Monday December 9th. BEFORE HOY. COMMANDRE BASIL H. H TAYLOR, R.N. (MARINE MAGISTKATE).
EXCESS PASSENGERS.
carrying out, in his conduct what be professed... For ordinary mea, it cannot be too often pointed out, the mockness of such a shouki
plea not be to readily accepted in justification of what is obvious. It is to be noted, by the way, that Confucius naver be practised. He taught polition-never "hitched aimed too high, never preached what could not
it, "be taught letters, ethics, devotion of soul, and truthfulness.".. "To his practical mind the toiling of thought amid uncertaintios comed worse tasu useless," Dr. Legge complaine that he did not "candidly tell his real thoughts on so interesting & subject" as the one an which you have recently quoted Sir Oliver Lodge in the Dally Pres.-Tours &o.
MAN ADMIRER OF K'UNG. Kowloon, Dec. 8th. [Our correspondent will doubtless appreciate reason for smititng the conplading portion of his reflections.-Ed.]
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SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.
Twelve subscription grillas were brought ta the Colony yesterday by the zs, Hang Sang, which arrived from the north. They were noon, the resnit being as follows:- drawn for st Kennedy's stables in the after-
19-(dun)
8(grey) 24 (dark-grey) 29-bay)
8-(brown) 37-(blue-dub)
45-(grey) 45-(brown)
Mr. E, shewan "Keo Cheong" Staff Mr. C. Lafrentz・・
Mr, T. 8. Forrost
Mr. W. G. Clarks
Hon. Mr. H. Keswick Mr. H. N. Mody Mr. C. Thiel
Mr. J. R. M. Smith 52-(imn-grey) Mr. J. Armstrong
53-(dark-grey) Mr. A. Moir 55-(grey)
Mr. F. B. Marshall (Amoy) WEATHER REPORT,
offices of the Cerion Association in London, 81, per cent is dus to financial nativity and the
The first annual meeting of the Tremelbye (Selangor) Bubber Company was held at the
Toxro, December 4tb.. The rise in the Bank rate at Tokyo to siglator
of the report, remarked that at the time when Gracechurch-strest, last monts. Mr. N., W. heavy demand for winter commodities resulting Grieve presided, and, in moving the adoption in an increased need for capital. On December 3rd. at Shanghai, ERNEST LEE come about, with regard to silver in the hinges, looks and brass bearing the broad arrow the company's properties were taken over there ALIES TO FRANCES ETEEL, only aughter of the shape of Mexican dollars, the form in which The tenant was arrested on the charge of were about 293 sores of land nuder rubber. late Captain William Waddove of Sha ghai.
it enters mainly into trade in north and having stolen these from the Navalyard. He Subject to a survey which was in progress they middle China, clean Mexican dollars being told Mr. Hazeland at the Police Court yester- had now practically nearly 1,500 noren plazited
We are requested to call attention to a apeis [1957 quoted at five per cent over their equivalent Arsenal Street 67 years ago, and he did not soreage but to concentrate work on maintaining day. It is to tell the sailors and soldiers about day that the bits were given to him by a man in The policy of the board was not to increase this missionary service in the Cathedral on Wednes- HONGKONG OFFICH 10, DE VEUX ROAD Cweight in bullion, although of actually then notice they bore the Government mark it in a thoroughly efficient condition. In the the missions, and there will be no collection. LONDON OFFICE; 131, FLEET STREET, F. C inferior fineness. Here as in Europe and He had been employed in the Navalyard for a course of 1908 the balance of is. per share due, the Governor and Lady. Langard, the 52-(dark-grey)
America the want is not of metal, but of couple of years, and the brass and other articles on the first issue of 30,000 shares would be Admiral, and the Geders), have promised to be currency. Indeed the scarcity of actual were given him two years ago. His Worship called up. To meat the future requirements of present, money, and the excess of ordinarily carrentateuced him to three weeks hard labour and the estates until they arrived at the self- HONGKONG, DECEMBER 10TH, 1907. promises to pay, which commonly pass neix hours stocks for stealing the bits, and to supporting stage there still remained 11,208
MARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT, currency, a beginning to be almost as ion of the other articles
fourteen days hard labour for being in posses- shares available for issue. The resolution was THE present demand for gold in the United pressing in China as in Europe and
seconded by Mr. Q. A. Talbot, and agreed to. States has apparently brought about America. But these dollars are in number At to-day's meeting of the Sanitary Board some not easily explained complications becoming searger, since
Mr. H. Humphreys will ask the following Amongst other things it has led to a Government has withdrawn them from Health consider the filthy habit of spitting in the Mexican questions: (a) Does the Medical Offer of close understanding between the Banks currency, so that there seems some prospect buildings and public vehicles which obining Traveller Round the World."Your article Iu, master of painter bost No, 2822, for entry alien-moderately over N. China and the E. of England and France. Some time ago of their following the example of the once universally amongst the lower classes of Chinese on Japanese spies in Chine reminds me that ing sight persons in excess of the autabor wn spoke of the probable coming about of precious "Pillar" dollar, which rose to a detrimental to the Fablic Health (b) Is not this while visiting Japan during the war with Bussin allowed by his licence. The Lance Sergeant such an arrangement as likely to render premium of over thirty per cent over its in-
hatitzecountable in great measure for the spread sad my wife and two daughtera. landed at informed the Court that defendant's boat was Upper Tangtze, and pressure appears to be easier in England the effects of such a
of phthiais, dipthorin and other diseases and if Shimonoseki, and hid hardly besa ashore ten lying off West Point, and had aboard 20 persons low over Manchuria and also over the Pasifle in The high pressure area le lying over the trinsic value as metal before being absorbed monetary crisis as the present, when a audio the tael of today. Apparently in a annually from such diseases (that is, diseases poke English perfectly, offered to show us all told, and on the occasion in gestion had at however, lacking.
no, what does the percentage of deaths arising minuta.when a plausible young Japanese, whe whereas the draft was licensed to carry only nine the neighbourhood of the Loochoos den demand for gold from without required quite capricious manner food stuffs, which capable of being propagated by dried infested round the town. We said we could find our way infant in charge.
The roturas from Formosa and Japan are, precautions to be taken against a drain might be expected to follow the example of sputum) bear to the total mortality? Times have been that, while the course metals generally, and become exchangeable in the correspondence set down for the considora ed on our steamer about two hours later, We alternative being six weeks imprisonment, and
naluded alone, but he followed us until we agaia embark-
Frash N. and N.E. winds are indicated in the His Worship imposed a fine of $35, the Formosa Channel and strong monsoon of the of business in England was being seriously for less quantities of gold, are actually tion of members are two letters from the Govern- cffered bim 2s. 6d. for his trouble, but to our the defendant
China . disturbed owing to a sudieo demand for quoted higher, so that the money market ment; one forwarding a copy of the additional surprise he refused to take any roward. On the boat in charge of an infant again
was -warned not to leave
Hongkong infall for the 24 hours ending gold from the United States, trade in may be said to be unsettled in more than one under the Waterworks Ordinance, 1913, the and we were told that, having satisfled himself regulation made by the Governor-in-Council inquiring who he was, we found him to be a spy,
at 10 am today, inches
France was aetusily atagsating owing to direction; but here other economic causes are other dealing with exemptions from the provi- that wo wished no harm to the Government, we from two or three ripe tomatoes, chop them up
The forecast for the 24 bars ending at noon A delicious fresh chutney is made as to-day is as follows:- the superfluity of gold causing a plethora. at work. Although the circulation of gold sions of motion 175 of the Public Health and might go anywhere else in Japan, as
follows:Remove the seeds and watery juice Hongkong & Neighbourhood Lately a more generous feeling of the has been arrested by the icoreasing deaire to by the Principal Civil Mediost Officer relative throughout the country, and no further green ohillies obopped small, and a little bit of
Buildings Ordinance. There is also a minute description would be telegraphed at - once
ear with a quarter of their bulk of white onion, and advisability of mutual help between the hold, this tendency has bad, of course, no to the amendment of Nos. 8 and 12 of the inquiries or prying would take place,
season the mince with a little salt; add twa
Formoss Channel... two has sprung up, with manifest advantage effect on the demand for food stuffs, as the Importation and Inspection of Animals Byalawa, proved to be quite true.”
This celery also choppad, give the whole a dust of black pepper, and moistan it with a teaspoon of vinegar, anchovy vinegar for choice.
Japan seems to bring out all the latent Daily Graphic, is the imaginative effort of "A foolishness of a globetrotter. Here, from the
Lance Sergeant Jackson prosecuted Leang
the following report-
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 9th at 12.30 p.m.-The barometer has
coast.
South east of China between South coast of Chins between Hongkong and Lamocks. Hongkong and Hainan...
N. winds, eah; fire.
·N. and N.E. winds, fresh
Bamsal
Bames No