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SHIPPING NEWS.
FAREWELL DINNER TO “RANJI"
CRICKET AND EMPIRE.
There was a memorable gathering in the old
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH, 1908. HAMBURG LETTER. during the Boer-war it brings to ught, and it A CHINESE MEDICAL MISSIONARY. Dr. Thomas Cochrane, of Peking introduces [JPROLALLY WRITTEN VOR THE "DAILY PRESE'remains to be seen what the
will reply.
It may be too early to expect lengthy som to the roaders of The Chronicle of the IAMS. ments in the Press until the first surprise is over. Dr. Li Hsiao Ch'aan, of Peking. He writes kong ́èn, 24th nlt., were delivered in San Guildhall of Cambridge recently when town and
We have today in the city of Peking one The past fortnight has not been an eventful Most of the newspapers here and in. Boris of the most flourishing medical missions in the The Apear str. Lightning from Calcutta left grown combined to give, a farewell dinner to opo; politics, although far from being settled, lava assumed a more peaceful sapest, which
hás
' October 29th. THE STATE OF TRADE,
a
LATEST-STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The P.M. str. Mongolia sailed from Hong-
Francisce on the 22nd inst.
Bingapore on morning the 25th inst., and may be expected here on or shout the let prox
Prince Banjitainhji, the Jam of Nawanagar who was about to return to his Principality in Indis, and will probably not visit England again for some yearS;"
Nearly three hundred men identified with the civic and iversity life of Cambridge gathered to do honour to the ones popular undergraduate, now equally popular as the ruler of an Indian State.
Nowhere is the Jam's career as a cricketer
hold in greater honour than in the varsity town where he first exhibited his prowess as a maker Other famous oricketers joined in the festivity.
of centuries.
publish a translation of the account with but Empire of China, and the credit is very largely
MELBOURNE TO SHANGHAL. for explanatory notes and historia retrospective due to this revered colleague, who, while one glances. One of our local papers, however, as of the most retiring of men, is one of the most
Arrangements have been completed for the served to restore ecfidence in
• rate of moderáte views, condemns the faithful, British missionaries included, the
establishment of a direct monthly subsidised He Mission has ever had. has
the served certain measure in the stock exchange, and the various produce markets, but has failed publication as a pices of gross indiscretion Missions for nearly three decades, and many steamship service between Melbourne and to stimulate enterprize. The extent to which and faulty judgment on the part of times during that period the continuity of the Shanghai, and the Victorian State Cabinet on the general depression of trade that followed ite author. It doubts vary much whether the work depended entirely upon him. During the October 26th, approved of the agreement, which has affected this situation is such as to warrant so extraor- Boxer troubles it was completely destroyed. But has been prepared by the Minister for even then the work was stopped for about two Agriculture (Mr. Swinburne) and the Premier on last year's boom country is shown by the decrease of importe dinary a step and whether the object of bringing months only, Immediately the worst had blown of New South Wales, for the maintenance of and exports during the first nine months of the the English and German peoples mester together by and temporary premises had been secured, the service. In referring to the service. Mr. present year as compared with the returns for for instance, is likely to be attained by remind- Dr. Li was at his post again. Some people Swinburne stated, after the Cabinet meeting same period in 1907, the former having declineding the one of the time of its sore distress and prosch more then they practise, while others that the contracting firm was the English and On either side of the Jam were seated Dr.:
belongs to the latter class, from 6523-6 million Marks to 61149 and the the other of the painful dissension between the more than they preach. Dr. Li Australian Steamship Company. The necessity Grace, Lord Dalmeny, Mr. C. B. Fry. Mr. A. Dr. Li is well known in Peking and in the country for miles and miles around." His parents by odd miles from Poking; and when he goes to visit them once a year, his holiday is mach interfered with by those who, having heard of his skill and his kindness, come to him for help. He is well known to officials and better-class people in the city, and his fame has reached the palace itself.
latter from 5073-3 to 5000-6. Precious metals and bullion, which are not included in the above, on the other lund show an incranes as far as imports are concerned, they are stated to have been 3063 millions against 145-2, whilst exports have sunk from 63'6 millions to 591, which has helped to improve the financial position of the country notably that of the Reichsbank. As
nation and its government, when the fate of the Boers hung in the balance.
THE DECLINE IN SILVER.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
The Osaka dechi, in an article on the decline in the silver market, remarks that this year everything has been inactive. The depression
for a through service to Shanghai had long bean apparent, and the Victorian commercial agent stationed at Shanghai (Mr. Levies) had said that its establishment would give considerable stimalus to the growing trade between Australia and the northern part of Chins. The contract has been jointly subscribed to by Now South Wales and Victoria, and a sabaily of £3,900 would be paid for three years. The first hout
C. MacLaren, Mr. H. L. Simms, Mr. C..L. A. Smith, and Mr. H. D. G. Leveson Gower.
Among the "Dons" Browning and Professor Howard Marsh, master of Dowsing.
ware Professor Oscar
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might well have claimed to represent the rest of the cricketers of England.
The large banqueting hall with ite paintings
Some time before I loft Peking 1 asked him / would leave Melbourne in shout a month's tima, of local worthies needed no decking, bat a trade is becoming more active in the United/ has affected foreign trade, and the export of to give me some reminiscences of his life and and the freight would be the gains as the freight touch of eastern colour was given by the|
States and the Presidential electiori campaign is drawing to a close there, it is hoped that, as soon as the latter has been defluftely decided, a general revival may set in and the trade of the world receive a fresh impetus.
GEEMAN CAPITAL IN TURKEY AND THE LEVANT:
.
Whilst the troubles in the Near East continue to engage the attention of everybody it may be of interest to learn to what extent German
capital is employed in Turkey and the Levant. I am endebted to one of your contemporaries for the following particulars; the total is estimated at no less than 523 million Marks, of which by
goods to China has particularly suffered. Since the value of exports to China has fallen January off month by month, and a heavy depreciation is shown as compared with last year, sa may be seen from the following figures:
January February Marolt.
+
April...... May June July.
This Year. Last Year. Y3,512,259 Y4,574,974 5,034,980 7,922,107 6,782,0347,347,969 6,455,406 7,446,418 6,224,731 9,028,251 5,483,916 8,312,857 4,927,222 7,139,366
work, especially of his difficulties in 1900, and following are some of the things after some persuading I prevailed upon him to
I jotted down in
to Hongkong. Shippers in future would save the charges at present made for transhipment further port, The rates to be sharged would be at Hongkong and separate freight on to the not less than 10s, per ton.
TAXATION IN JAPAN-
presence of half a dozen of the Jan's attendants gold laced tunics of dark blue. garbed in turbans of scarlet and gold, and
The Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Viscount Clifden, was the chairman.
Lord Curzon, in regretting his sbance in Scotland, wrote, that ho would gladly do anything to show may regard and respect for my friend the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, who is equally charming as a cricketer and a inan" The Duke of Beaufort said that only a broken leg kept him away. Other dia- tinguished men and cricketers, including Lord Harris, the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, and Lord Hawke, pleaded public engagements in Mr. B. 0. Buckmaster, K.C., the moraber for excuse for absence, Cambridge, who was compelled, by doctor's
his letter of apology,
far the greatest portion is invested in Railway trade of Japan with China in very unsatisfac subscribed by charitable PP well-known method of taxation, which necessarily throws a erler, to forego the dinner, told a good story in
enterprise. The Anatolian Railway Company, with a length of line of 1032 kilometres or 640 miles, stands first; the ordinary shares, amount
in
ing to 40 million Marks, as well as 128 million 1902, when a lower rate than 22d was recorded. Kung. One of these Grand Councillors, the Government is beginning at the wrong end will always be memorable in the annals of county
to
Dr. Dudgeon was followed by Dr. Pritchard, whe altered and improved the hospital. He also taught in the Imperial Medical College. One of the cases trested by Dr. Pritchard was of
"The last time I had the honour of meeting ericket match fifteen years ago. The occasion his Highness," he wrote, "was at a village
cricket, for he was bowled by the village post- man for nineteen runs. He never knew that the postbusu bad been put into careful training for this performance for weeks past and that he had been driven all round his district so as to avoid the exhaustion of his energica by long walking or too long lingering in the hospitable kitobens of the country!
The menu was aptly illustrated with a comple of photograhs of the Jam, one dated 1889. 1893" showing him in cap and gown, the other,
Maharajah 1908," was his latest picture in his turba aud
The
censes (1) the decline in the demand in China; interest. The chief eunuch in the palace of houses to let, an almost unheard-of thing in robe Tam Sahib looked as happy as a sandboy
THREATENED WITH LIFE-LONG AGONY
From Dreadful Humour on Face and Scalp Under Medical Care for Monthe-Suffered for 3 Years and Despaired of Cure Now Well.
CALLS THE CUTICURA
REMEDIES MARVELLOUS
**I maffered for two and a half, I may my three years froga tegible eruptions of the skin and moslp. My face was in broken out and my bead was so bad that I could mouromy wash my face or comb my hair. I went to a doctor in Dublin for about three months. He gave me a letion and pills, but they proved of no we whatsoever. Bo 1 came to the con-": clusion that I could not be cured when ska doctor's remedies wefe no good,
About two years and five months after trying his treatment a friend wu *Helling me of the Cuticure Hemedies. I got a supply and continued with the treatment for two months when my akia became completely free from any. sores. I must say that only for the man- vellous Cutlaura. Remedies I should have been in agony all my life, and I am deeply grateful to Outiours. L'also know friends who have used Cuticura. Mira. M. Harney, Glen House, Merganstown, Dunlavin, Co, Włoklow, Ire., Jan. 4, '08.** Send to nearest depot for free Cuti- car Book on Treatment of Skin Diseases.
BABIES ON FIRE
With
Torturing. Disfiguring Humours, Cured by Cuticura.
Ecsemas, rashes, itchings, irritations sid chafings new Instantly rollored and
speedily oured, In the majority of cases, by worn bathe with Cơtic curs Bosp and gentle Chapplications of Duff- Jours Ointment, the gent Bidin Õure. The Treatment permits rest and-sleep "and points to a speedy cure in the most distressing cases, when all sine falls. For prosary- ing, purifying and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair and bands, for sanative, antiseptic cleansing and all purpos of the toilet, bath and nursery, Out- cura Soap and Ointosent are pricnimus. Catius eine gruseid juraughoyi tho marig A Bingle Bai etsen Duran Dagaže: London, U Charterhouse Fan! Paris, B. Rue de ASUNE
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For between 40 and 50 years we have carriod on our hospital work in this city, and our treatments during that period amount to The people about a million and a half. from officials downwards have come to us
It appears says the Japan Chronicle that one freely. In the eleventh year of Hsian Feng, good people in England established our hos of the mesures proposed. by the Government pital in the city for the treatment of sickness with a view to keeping up the price of bonds of all kinds. From that time till the second is to exempt the national securities from the month of the third year of Tung Chih, Dr. income-tax. Already this is done on a fow of Lockhart carried on his work. He was succeeded the issues floated during the war, but the great by Dr. Dudgeon, my dear old teacher, who majority of the bends have the income-tax may be offered to this in England good many objections bought the present "two pole" site with money deducted from the interest before it is paid. A
work Dur
the considerable amount of the work on Early in the history of men in high positions were treated by our doctors. Several Grand Councilors were among authorities responsible for the payment of in the eagerness to maintain the price of bonds our patients, and so was the famous Prinos interest. At the same time, it seems to us that whose establishment a man who had been ripped
with its remissions of taxation. People who can afford to, invest in bonds can by a stag was cared, wrote a preface for one of Dr. Dudgeon's transitions. Thus gradually word to pay the tax. It is otherwise with the our work became known, and increased exceed. ingly. Dr. Dudgeon taught in one of the large number of persons whose income is three Imperial Colleges, and some of his students are hundred yen per year, but who are nevertheless He visited by the tax gatherer and deprived of a certain amount of their hard-earned wages on account now ambassadors in other countries.
of income-tax. The general condition of things established opium refuges, where many were cured
le not very rewering In Kobe alone the evil saces of depressed trade are overywhere visible,
A FIGHT FOR A THRONE, There are now thousands of unoccupied honses in the city, even Moto-machi showing s number
LUXEMBURG'S DISPUTED SUCCESSION, this usually prosperona thoroughfare. As a tous, the Government seems to be
Guildhall and took his seat amid the rattling
A modern fight for a throne is about to come Japanese correspondent remarks in writing when, escorted by Lord Clifden, he entered the chapplanas of all his hosta. He was amused and absorbed in its efforts to maintain the market, and the condition of the great class pleased to find inside the menu his cricket record before the courts. The independent Grand which does not hold bonds is virtually ignored. from 1893 to date with the note: For Duchy of Luxemburg is the spoil claimed, and Japanese mercantile navy are out of employment averages on eight occasions, including this late Prince Nicholas of Nassan, the claimant.
The present occupier of the throne is a Scume seven hundred certified officers of the Sussex the Jam Sahib has been top of the Count Merenberg, alleged morganatic son of the in Kobe and Osaka, while the number of men Besson.
Mr. A. Priestley, M.P., proposed the Jam younger son of the same father, but strictly months from shipbuilding yards and other factories is very large. Our correspondent urges he said, to every schoolboy in the Anglo-Saxon course, the legitimany of the late Prines Nicho remissions i of taxation ars to be made, it world who had ever seen a cricket bat. Without las's first marriage" with a Bavarian pensant that is this class that ought first to beseft; and going into "the statistics compiled by his wizard woman.
The opponents are the present Grand Duke, we think that most foreigners, whether they hand." he said that future generations of
Guillaume-Alexandre, and his six doughters, tre bondholders or not, will be inclined cricketers would look back with admiration on to agree. It is becoming clear that the the astonishing success of a young Indian exceedingly handsome children from fourteen
Marenberg on the utlier. retrenchments already made or proposed in prines, who beat many of the best English to seven years in age, on the one sido, and Count
Ranji," who was cleared loudly on rising to
The succession of a daughter to the throne of the national expenditure will be quite in cricketers at their own game. adequate to affect any substantial reductions of! taxation. Indeed, as is evident from the reply, said that he coull not fud words to Luxemborg was arranged by a sporial law passed ment on what are known as the "bad taxes, remarks of an official in the Finance Depart express his feelings, but the few words he had by the Luxeraburg Parliament in 1907, when it came from his heart, He said that he felt he was soon that the admat of a son to the Grand the official view would seem to be that the people was being placed a second time by the English Duke was extremely improbable, and it is this
His claim to the accession derives from being quite resigned to a taxation that amoante, which played about his face gave place to have set aside. Finance, to 35 per cent. of the nation's income, he believed there were no finer men in Indis the son of the present Grand Duke's uncle, now according to the present Vice-Minister of look of deep seriousness when he declared that It is to be feared that there will be a good deal than the educated native chiefs, nor any men dead, Nicholas Duke of Nassau and Count of distress in the coming winter, and the who had a sterner sense of duty. They would Merenberg is thus cousin to the present throne- optimism of the gentleman referred to is likely do any mortal thing" for the British Boreholder.
reign, and he looked forward with optimism to the future relatious between them and England. to meet with a rude awakening.
"The enemies of our King are also our enemies," he said with conviction and he declared that efforts to put down sedition would be generally supported. Acknowledging that there were some malcontents among the 230 When we read day by day of the malcontents millions in India, he said, amid applauss: England, may not make an apology for the
He married no other lady, and the Counte I
He heved that and Countesses of Merenberg might thus be malcontente in India!" treatment of Indians in other parts of the The history of Europe-Austria especially much of the trouble in India roso from the considered to rank as strictly legitimate children, Empire. He felt that all parts of the Empire is fall of morganatic alliancos, but mostly they great deal among the eunuchs of the palace,
were said; Personally I hardly think that Germany should be treated alike, and he thought some differ in that a legal wife and her children claim the Medical College the head eunuch would be likely to join in any such conference. scheme should be devised to improve the position precedence. Here it is clear that Count Meren- bscribed. The 500, sond eunuch We have no questions at all in the Pacific to of Indian trado sul labour in the Colonies, berg is the nearest male relative to the throne, Tis 200, I have been in nearly every import-be settled. The whole of the Facile is divided Lack of employment was apt to give the maleon- and his rights as a morganatic child should prove part of the palace at varions, timos visiting now into perfectly well-recognised spheres, tent leaders their chance. He concluded: "I the theme of some hard wrangling in the courts. The Kobe Chamber of Commerce has received patients. Last year I was called in to treat the One or other of the Powers protecta every return to India with one idea to do my duty. It is easy to be ignorant of the exuut political ecommunication from Mr. Oshikawa, Vine. Emperor's second eunuch in the rooms adjoining single island, and there is no debatable on behalf of my people to uphold the honour of status of Luxemborg, and one may, therefore, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, calling the Emperor's living rooms. The Emperor land left now except the New Hebrides; my race, to maintain the unity of our common mention that it was created an independent question purely between Empire, and to show unswerving loyalty to the Grand Duchy by the Treaty of London of 1867, forming a tiny neutral State, no bigger than person of my Sovereign." the attention of the Chamber to the piracy of himself had told them there was no hope for and that is
fifty miles by thirty-two sandwiched between I began my letter by stating that the past foreign trade-marks by Japanese manufacturers the case unless they sent to the Shih I Yuan (the Great Britain and France. There is
immigration question in the German islands in
France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. the Pacifio, Numbers, of
live in tho Japanese fortnight had been an uneventful one, but and merchants. The letter, which has pre-name of our hospital).
Marshall Islands, and they are free to come since then an article has appeared in the sumably been addressed to all the Chambers of
and go in any of them. There is no point of Daily Telegraph of London that has caused Commeros in the country, was accompanied by
friction in the Pacific. for Germany to discuss. intehas surprise everywhere, and may be of far. specimens of forged foreign labels, and reads
as follows:
Korea and Manchuria are meant that is China, hardly the Pacifio. I know nothing of "The extention of the sphere of busi- reaching importance. Au old English diplom-
feels compelled, in the interest of nose enterprise has of late intensified the
affairs there, and cannot speak of them."
most formidable fortromos of Europe-ono As a result som
The Consul General for France, M. Pinard, in-Chief in South Africa, speaking at the town for Luxemburg, its capital, formed one of tho a better understanding between the English evils of competition.
merchants are known to be freely in
said: "I have had no message whatever from hall, Durban, last month, said he never had a and the German peoples and in the gener! dulging in fraud and manufacturers imitate
France as to a proposed conference. I cannot more import duty to fulfil than to carry great military authority placed it only second interest of peace at a critical moment, to the
of others or produce There are some who are The cumpilation of the next Budget boing see that France has any questions to diseases,out the munte which had been given to him in point of natural vantage to Gibraltar-and it address to the newspaper named an account of spurions articles.
finished, its salient points ware an the 10th inst. Most certainly we should not trout as to the by Mr. Haldane. This was to endeavour to was besieged and starved out again and again
colonies in South Africa in order that the Netherlands.
BUILT ON A ROCK. an interview the Kaiser recently honoured always trying shamelessly to diminish the)
Bother-country might be able to withdraw
The town is built up on a rock rising him with. Its authenticity hardly admits of a of others for the inko of temporary porconal informally communicated to the representatives New Hebrides in such a conference, and he consolidate the present forces in the different in the history of France, Germany, and the
gain. Thors are not a few who venture to of various parties in the two Houses and to have no questions to settle with the Japanese."
The Consul General for Japan also said that doubt as the Foreign Office in Berlin, o infringe the right of others to industrial property Tukyo newspapers and news agencies. They
Africa to the Colonists.
200ft.. and it was a matter of extreme difficulty being applied to, has not disavowed it, by Imitating or
Varnment pirating inventions, trade. will shortly be explained at some length to he had received no information from his Go-overy soldier, leaving the defence of South precipitously on three sides to a height of songs. whilst the emi-official Norddeutsche Allgemarks, &c. These are tendencies to be deplored principal Parliamentarians.
The revenue amounts to Y467,380,000 in The opinion generally strongly held in for at after all British troops have been withdrawn after the Treaty alluded to above so to dismantle meine Zeilung reproduces it without a word of in regard to the future of the Empire's industry the ordinary department and Y49,740,000 in sign circles throughout Sydney is that the only the defence of South Africa will be in the hands and destroy the fortifications as to render them
It is to
to be particularly noted that complaints comment. The general purport it not have been frequently made by foreigners against the extraordinary department, being a total friction in the Pacific which could be discussed entire text will have been flushed over to you the infringement of their trade marke or of X.517,120,000 against V.582,780,000 for the at each a conference is one between Japan and of the Bour leaders in the late war.
1908.9 fiscal year. The expenditure amounts to China on the one side and Great Britain by wire before I set pen to paper; it would trade-names by Japanese. While some of these 405,160.000 in the ordinary department and Australia, and the United States on the other.
A FROZEN VILLAGE therefore be waste of, space in your columns if complaints cannot be regarded as legitimate in
the eyes of the law, there are many actions 1.111,950,000 in the axtraordinary department, The other Powers put nå restriction on immi-
During the period given above the silver market in London continued to decline, with consider abls fuctuations in the rate of exchange on China. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Since July last the silver market has tory remained low. London advices of the 30th last month quoted the metal at 23 This was the lowest rate on record since 1901 or The market further declined, and on the next debentures, are mostly in German hands us are day (31st) stool at 23 d. On the 4th also those of the. Morsins Tarsus Adana instant the rate foll to 23d. and on the 6th to line of the face value of £207,000, and below that figure, the rate of exchange on Shanghai rising to 894 thels The Osaka £246,000 respectively. The Bagdad Railway journal notes that diverse opinions prevail re- which has been the subject of mach unfriendly garding the present constant fluctuation of discussion in the European pross, is being con- silver. When London advices recorded a structed under the direction of the Turkish ge-heavy advans in the market to 32 4d lost year, it was explained that the rise was duo vernment but by German engineers sad largely the action of the French Government, which with German money. Sofar 200 kilometer was buyizig metal for coinage, having made a of rail have been laid and it is expected that farther purchase of 9,000 lbs. The degraciation the line will be completed as far as Aleppo by in the market this year is absoribed to various
ill, and we found that an operation was Christmas: contracte for a further 840 kilome (2) the active speculation in silver engaged in necessary. But Dr. Pritchard, being a foreigner, tres have already been signed, The building between Indian merchante (buyers) and London could not go inside the Imperial quarters, and so and working capital has been supplied by the merchants (sellers); (3) the increased production the patient was removed to a temple just on the or copper mining; other side of the Forbidden City wall. This Issue of fully paid-up shares and of the of silver incident on gold Bagdad Loan, Berie I, amounting to 50 and (4) the remarkable divergency in demand euch was a great favourite with the Empress million Marks in round numbers, of which between gold and silver, the demand for silver Dowager, and she kept another eundoh, a young increasing at a much slower rate than that boy, running backwards and forwards every few by for the greator part has been placed for gold. No noticeable increase has been minutes to report progress. At one stage of the silver mines of the world, but the output told her that the annuck had been out open and Haidar Pasha Dock Company of Frs 4,800,000 of silver from copper mines has increased was dying, and the Empress got a great fright; and Frs 8,000,000 respectively are to s. as the methods of working the mines have bo but afterwards, Anding that the report was large extent owned in this country, as are also come mere expert, so that it is indisputable that natrue, she banished the boy to the northern the shares and debentures of the Salonica the production of silver has increased. It must wilds. Not long ago a man stopped me in the Monastir. Bailway Compsay of together 68 also be admitted that the desire for gold has street and asked me if I did not remember increased generally ruch more than lust for him. "No," I said "Why," said he, "do million francs. The same may be said of those silver. Moreover, the slackness in the demand you remember the boy who was banished of the Austrian "Oriental Railway Company" for silvor in China and India- most important for his mistake and for his fright he gave the The with a capital of 40 million francs. These factor, it influences the silver market of the Empress-Dowager? Well, I am he,” five companies represent a capital of 325 world is slone utleient to account for the eunuch recovered from the operation, and in decline in the market. The exact point of the gratitude presented Dr. Pritchard with a gold million Marks of which from 240 to 230 relative value of silver to gold is exceedingly watch,
but the high rate of between I might multiply interesting cases indefinite- various loana we find that the 4 per cent. 30d, and
that of 31d. or 324: quoted in the first half of interest save to doctors. We do not, however, Ottoman lean of 1903 of which 48 millions are
last year were the highest recorded during the always get the credit for our work which is our
the past decade, while present rate below due. I remember one case where this was The Empress Dowager had a 23-is the lowest recorded since 1901 or 1902. illustrated. These rates are are abnormal at either extreme, younger brother who had a serious affection, to and it is in the natural order of things that the care which she sent five of her most famous abnormal gives way in time to the normal. The doctors to stay with him night and day. These abnormally low price of silver will be followed by five men wrote daily accounts of his condition, a decrease of supply as a matter of course. and wrote long prescriptions, which wore sent When this cours, the market will undoubtedly to a native drag store to be filled. These improve. The increased supply of silver of late, prescriptions were the result of long anxious however, is accounted for by the increased thought and much argument, some of the
It was reported by cable on October 26th, production of the metal, and the abundant doctors maintaining that medioines to produce supply may be maintained longer than might be heat were required, and some that cold ought to says the Bydney Morning Herald, that Japan expected. In these circumstances, it may be ba the object aimed at. But the sick man would was proposing a conference of the Powers to difficult to foresee any marked improvement is have none of their drugs, and followed only disease matters containing possibilities of the market in the near future, unless a fresh our advies. He got well; but in this case we of friction" in the Pacifo-at least if America demand for the metal is created by special got the work to do, and the Traperial physicians or England did not move to hold it Japan
got the credit and the fees. We have done would.
Tho Conal-General for Germany, Dr. Irmer, circumstances. Japan Chronicle.
in Germany. The ahures and debentures of the seen of late years in the output from the operation the boy rushed to the Empress and who have been dismissed within the last 10 Sahibi's health. His performances wore familiar, | legitimate. The legal point, to be raised is, of
millions are hold in Germany, Turning to the difficult rulling the year before last and ly, but many of them are too technical to be of have nothing to complain of, and are becoming people on the throne of Nawanagar. The smile law that Count Merenberg will endeavour to
in girculation, and the Imperial Ottoman loan of 1903 of 48.3 millions have been placed almost entirely in this country, whilst of the Unified Ottoman loan of 1905 and the Turkish lettery loan from 90 to 100 million Marks are owned in the fatherland so that the total amount of Turkish stock in German hands may be safely put at 170 to 180 millions. If to this be added the working capital of the various commercial and industrial, establishments belonging to Germans in the East, which by the authorities in Berlin is estimated at from 70 to 30 million Marks, it will be seen that the total amount of Gorman capital invested in the Near East cannot fall short of 520 million Marks as stated above.
Germany has thus every interest in the main- tenance of peace and the rumours assiduously circulated by some saying that she is urging Turkey on to war are obviously unworthy of credence.
THE KAISEE'S INTERVIEW.
stist.
FRAUDULENT TRADE-MARKS IN JAPAN,
DENUNCIATION BY VICE-MINISTER OF COMMERCE,
inventions
From
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of whom there are 3,000. When we
JAPAN'S BUDGET.
SCOPE OF RETRENCHMENT ON PUBLIC WORKS FOUND UNNECESSARILY GREAT,
PACIFIC CONFERENCE.
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a total of 7.517,120,000 against Y554.880,000. gration into their various islands, and the
in
in
MR, HALDANE'S MANDATE.
BRITAIN TO WITHDEAW EVERY BOLDIER FROM SOUTH AFRICA. General Lord Methuen, the Commander.
This means, remarks a London contemporary,
tlie mar The Duke
ROMANTIC HISTORY. But he is only a morganatic cousin, for aromaatie history attaches to riage of the father and mother. Nicholas fell in low with a beautiful Ras- sian actress Natalie Poushkine, a married women, and after her divorce he married her rank of Countess Moronborg, morganstically in London, raising her to the
It has its own Parliament and other machinery of government, and constitutes a little ngri- onltural State with the most placid of recent histories.
In the olden days matters were very different, «
no object. of covetouses for military men of the surrounding nations.
France.
1 Luremburg has its own stamps, but its colmage rans only to a halfpenny and a penny, s indication of the lowly aspirations of its people. They speak a weird kind of dialect, which is I also refrain from all remarks on it as the have a strong appearance of being illegal and regard to revenue and expenditure: In com- The opinion is strongly held that, unless in the village being frozen to death is told by the mis- roughly Low Dutch with a provincial French I wore, to give even a short summary of it here. I on the part of Japanese business-mon which railway account is made independent poth immigration, has never been a live on with them. A strange story of the inhabitants of a whole.
sionarios belonging to the Island of St. Laurent, accent, but the official language is French, and Kaiser's utterances simply confirm what I have fraudulent. These actions not only damage
at laid the Pacific questions are inchided the quite distimet Alaska, an island which has communication as far as the manners and customs of the well- of Japanese businessmen, but tend to piling the next Budget the Government I okays maintained, that he has over shown affect the national prestige of the Empire nhaust stress upon the maintenance of equili- and isolated questions of Manchuria and Korea, with the rest of the world only cure a year. In to-do classes go, the country might belong to,
June last a band of Indians journeyed
Luxenburg eity itself looks most haposing as himself the best friend of England and is The annexed specimens of forged trade-marks brinm between revenue and expenditure for a few the Continental Poweni would have nothing to
by canoe across to the Siberiau frontier probably the only sincere one posges illustrate only the most
strengthening the financial basis. Consequently in.. amongst the great Powers, not excepting From these the rest can be in glaring examples. Yours to come and the fetoration of confidence by discuss, and would be very foolish to be dragged
Government decided to postpone military, 1 Amongst Americans the expressed opinion to see how their comrades had fared during one crosses one of the two great bridges connec on the broad boulevard rauning above the the United States. May it convince people first the Patent Bureau has been stringently
village, where they found all the inhabitants,
outward appearance mon, women, and children, were frozen fortifications, but this at-home of the genuineness of his senti- scrutinising all applications for registration of naval and other public enterprises to the extent was that though thers did exist an immigration the winter. They arrived at an Esqnimaux ting it with the surrounding country and walks
trade-marks in order to detect forgeries, and of about 200 million yen. Nevertheless, it was question, that question, in America at least, was ville
It is to be allocated. Whom America admitted to America, and on visions had become exhausted, and they had been is most deceptive, and inside the boulevard the iments towards them and dispel these fears applications for trade-marks which are calculated subsequently found that a super-abundance is not a fit subject to be thrashed out in conference. to death. Apparently their stock of pro. leading to the inference of a miniature Brussels town, which they mad, mad as March-hares" to impose on the public have been rejected. It available to some extent. entertain with regard to his ulterior designs. is to be hoped that all business men will exercise to productive enterprises, such as river and what terms, was a matter parely for America. forced to eat the dried fish skins which formed city is little more than a good-sized market
Still, to reign over a Grand Duchy, however But the article does not only address itself to redoubled care, warning each other and making harbour improvements, iron foundry, etc. Thus For the rest. in the Pacific Amerios had only the roofs of their huts, sad at length to eat their with shops and buildings to correspond.
the total amount of curtailment proposed in the one policythe open door. And about that there clothes. This had happened some months before it s principle of business to fortify their credit the British nation bai to France and Russians and strive, to promote commerce and industry next Budget comes down to some Y.168,000,000 warno question, for every Power in the Pacific the arrival of the Indians, and the frozen bodice small, is to be a somebody, and Count Merenborg
instead of about 200 million yen-Japan Gazette accepted it.
perfectly preserved, looked like statues of marble must be keenly anxious to win his fight for the
fatare succession to the throne. well, whose unfriendly conduct towards England by legitimate means,"
the the