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TENDERS FOR “REVENUE FARMS.
[ENDERS are invited for the Loses of
TENDERS Be the State of North Borneo, from the let January, 1910, as set ont REVENUE FARMS IN THE STATE OF
hereunder.
NORTH BORNEO.
1. In making arrangements for the leasing of the Forms for the next Farm period of 1910, 1911 and 1912, the Government reserves to itsolf the right of rosting the Farms (as provided in the Proclamations concerned as named in! Schodnie A appended) in any person, by public
or privato sale as my Trvation it is hereby
7 he thought fit. abave Subject to the netfled that tenders will be received at the Office of the Secretary to the Gloveruor, Sandakan, up to 12 o'clock noon, on the lat day of OCTOBER, 1909, for the purchase of the excla- sive privileges of the Farins described bolew for period of one, two or three years commencing on the 1st January, 1910.
2. Any person either for himself alone or for himulf and others, may, either in person or by agent duly accredited in writing, on any late prior to the said noon of the 1st October next, submit to the said Secretary at Sandakan, any touder he may think it for all or any of the Farms, provided such touder is in conformity with the terms of tendering hereinafter set out and fulls all the conditions, required of the Fartoer.
All tenders so male will (except at the express wish of the tenderers to the contrary) be received and treated by the Government as strictly con- Adential,
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On receiving any such tonder, Government reserves to itself the right of deciding whether it shall be considered or not,
If Government decides not to consider the tander, it will be returned to the tenderer under sealed cover,
All tenders accepted for consideration by Government will be, in the first instance, retained by Government for further considere tion with the tendere handed in on 1st October, 1909, which will be opened at noon on that date. after which the successful tenderer will be
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CODE WORD: "DOCK" A.1, A.B.C., and Engineering Code Uzsé NEW DOCK NOW OPEN. DOCK NO. 3
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(ii) KEDAT DISTRICT-the Territory bounded on the one side by the trus left watershed of the Paitan River and on the other by the true right watershed of the Pindasan River.
(ii) WEST COAST DISTRICT the Territory bounded on the one side by the true right watershed of the Findasan River and on the other by the Northern Boundary of Provinos Clarke.
(iv) EAST COAST DISTRICT the Territory bounded on the one side by the true right watershed of the Kinabatangan River autou, the other by the Dutch Bondary on the South nt Broershoek point.
(7) PROVINCE CLARKK-being the Territory between Batu Bata and the Lawas Northern watershed.
4. The attention of those desirous of tendering
is drawn to the following terms:--
(a) The tenderer must state in his tender the sanual sum offered for the Farm rent for the 1910, 1911 and 1912; different sum may be ofered for the first, second and third years respectively. The tenderer must also clearly state the proportion of the amount of the Reat to be allotted to each separate Farm.
He Hongkong DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1909,
THE
· DULL CRICKET.
SOME SUGGESTIONS.
BY W. E. W. ČÖLLINS (Author of Lares from the Diary of a
Country Cricketer.""). " To those whose experience of English cricket extends across the year it becomes more and more evident that the standard of play of the highest class is not so high as it should be Thore are doubtless more fairly good joketers to-day than there were forty years ago, more men naturally playing in so-called first-class cricket even-for the simple reason that first class astches have become as plentiful as gooseberries. But in the matter of cricket of quite the highest grade
"Not better than our fathers we
May wisely boast ourselves to be." That the standard of the highest-grade cricket has not been raised sanch since 1895 may be ganged by this. The same Mr: incLaren who if our memory is not at fault, headed the first. class averagas in that year is captain of the in the English representative side this year sories of Test matches of which one has ended And in petty well every disastrously for us, year of the present century the names of Fry: Hayward, and Tyldesley have been found ofthor ut or very near the top of the tree. Are we to suppose that a fully adult cricketer, like wine, really mellows and improves with age? In that case, let us lay down a fresh pipe of port" at ouce, that we may be sure of having something
to drink later on in the century.
| really no? Do not the waning balancen,” or, ! rather, the waxing deficits, of several conation rather point to the faste that inter county, matches pre more numerous than popular, and that football, the more vivacious game, is rapidly supplanting, or has already supplanted, cricket in the affections of the paymasters?
We believe that Las powers that he would be well advised if they condescended to borrow
That moans,
lessons from the Football League, to limit the number of first-class countles-thers cer tainly are not more than eight of these really in the running and to flavise some scheme for promotion and degradation, tonghly speaking, the devotion of two months, or half the season, to the County Championship. And in the other two mouths we should like so fax to revert to the methods of the anciente os to restore to the Lord's programme such old- time fixtures as North e. South, to make the Oval matel between Gentlemen and Players once again a genuine encounter between two really representative elevens, and. generally speaking, not to postpone really interesting aricket either to the Greek Katends or the Scarbrough and Hastings festivals-Daily Mail.
OUTDA ON WOMEN'S RIGHT).
In the Juno number of the National Review appears an article by the late Alle, de In Hameo. It was written by her more than 25 years ago, and sold with the stipulation that it should not be published till after her death. We extract a characteristic passage:-
The cry for equality with man" is much the same thing as the roughs cry for equality in sitizenship are demanded but the respon government. In both instances the rights of
sibilities of citizenship are shirked. The of political woman demands the exercise power, the rongly does the same, but as, the will not relinquish his enjoyment
THE SUPERFLUOUS COUNTIES, with the counties. If there are not too many The source of the trouble lies to some extent first-class countios to-lay, at any rate too many Counties claim the title. A little narrowing of the circle might sensibly improve matters. We soom in the cricket world not only to havo for TOLD Agganess. and licence, so the woman will gotten that one swallow or, say, even thred or four swallows, do not make a simmer, but to not relinquish her claim on social deference and social precedence.. He is to remain a rough expect the summer to remain with us after the swallows have ceased to be.
in his privileges of drinking, stone-throw. Somersetshire, for example! Is there aing, and slang-she is to remain a woman erickolor in England who really and seriously in her privileges of etiquette, homage, chivalry inugines that Bomersetshire, as the eleven has and baanty; but both, surrendering nothing. possessed oven an outside chance of winning the and representative rights; both are to be Lesn
constituted for the past ten years, can have are toreceive a full and free: grant of all electoral Conaty Championship? True, in the palmy days able to reverse the decree and invade the of Hewett, Woods, and Palairet Somersetshire domain of those who, exercising politlost power,
politionl was once and again found to be capable of beat de ales bear the burden of
responsibili ing pretty well any other county. Indeed, itties. Now as the vast body of educated may fairly claim have represented, even in
resist this and respectable mon do later years, the comical element, or what others opoly as proposed by the rough, so it is cricket. Plick, brilliant all these Somerset cone mands thus: an enlightened and honourable are pleased to call the glorious uncertainty of searcals wonderful do they also resist the the power to bring monopoly as proposed by woman. Briefly the shire aides may be accredited. But even the man must submit to be jostled and about the unexpected-
trampl late genial skipper, hero of many a hard-fought ed by the one, and must stand aside de- match, was ready to admit the presence in a side, ferentially with bat in hand for the other, and which has made its mark in cricket history by is only in return to have invaded and snatched upsetting pots, of that redundancy of rabbita
away the few civil superiorities to both that he which must be fatal to anything like consistent has hitherto enjoyed. Who can say that this success.
is just?
!
Then, again, the throe Midland counties - Lai- we put them not, perhaps, in order of merit, but cestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire in their order of promotion to the upper circle. Meriterions, painstaking, plodding counties these, but dull dogs, sirs, very. Do even their keeuest supporters credit any one of the trio with the capacity of rising above the level of that
just keep it WAY respectable mediority which riens of the "wooden spoon." bat is hardly likely top to bring it within measurable distance of the of the tree? What is it, we wonder, which rez ders the cricket played by the Midlanders se lamentsbly devoid of sparkle? Is it the clay soll, or the climate, or what? Where it might be within the bounds of reason to suppose that a combined elevan of these counties might put up good match against either Burray or Yorkshire, who but the local enthusiast would wish to pose as spectator on the occation?
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PROGRESS OF JAPAN
and
won-
Mr. Theodore D. Morgan, of the American Sheet and Tinplate Co., in an article in the fron Age descriptive of the Imperial Stoel works located at Waksmate, in Japan, says that the works produce pig iron, Bessemer, and open- hearth rails up to 76 lbs. par yard, boats, channels, angles, plates, black galvanised sheets, bars, wire, rods and wire, also galvanised wire, bolts, rivets and spikes. They also make fire brick, both basic and sold, their own coke, slag cement, slag tile, and ornamental shapes for buildings. There are two blast furnaces in operation, with an average output of 160 tons daily. Coke in furnished by a Semet-Solvay by-product plant. The ore, however, does not smelt well, and most of that used is imported from Chins. There are ten Bessemer converters and seven 25-ton busie open-hearth furore, ward nearly all the steel is top cast from a ladle ham- led by a 50-ton electric crane. The equipment slso comprises blooming, rail, and bar mills, and (b) The Government dose not bind steelf to
the plant is capable also of rolling 2-in. by in. acopt the highest or any tender, and serves
angles in 1 0.ft. lengths at the rate of about to itself the right of making any arrangements
70 tons per twelve hours. The large plate mill, fitted with rolls 4 in, in diameter and 100 it may deem advisable as regards the letting of
long, is said to turn out good material, but the the Farms,
(c) Each tenderer should specify in full, in Gloucestershire? Well, Gloucestershire, product of the small plate mill is not satisfac- English, and in the vernacular language of the hardly up to the mark in some respects, fory. The Japanees, in the opinion of Mr. tendarer, the names, residences and occupations ought perhaps to be retained on the list so Morgan, do not yet grasp the vast labona of the persons tendering, and similar information, long as Mr. Jessop is an active force on the saving possibilition of modern machinery. Wages run low, skilled workmen getting from regarding any security or any partner that the side and capable of posing as an object 28. ka 2s. 6d. par day, but unskilled labourers tenderer wishes to propose..
Isson in the art of fielding to fber
Unfors only Is to Is. 6d. generation of cricketers.
this great player, fully capable of rei
Derbyshire Possibly it amuses the Peak county to come up to the scratch year after year, on the off-chance of winning a match once in a blue moon and of achieving a respectable draw three or four times in the course of a season. But is it seriously worth while for really strong side to undertake a wearisome jearner for the purpose of demolishing ants gouists wholly anworthy of its steel
THE PERSONALITY OF MR. JERSOF,
(d) The successful tenderer will be called using a match, is not quite consistent terprise of the Japanese people, although their
to enter a contract under the provisions of the Proclamations named in Schedule i appended.
the materials
The above le a typical example of the en.. (0) Cupica of the the Forms of Contracts for enough to revolutionise a season, especially so local coal and iron ore are not of the best the Farms may be seen on application at the since either a knee, ez a heart, or side, or some quality and far inferior Offices of the said SEDEETARY, at Sandakan, or of other of those weaknesses that beast the path of available in India. But auch undertakinge Measta. GUTHRIE & Co., at Singapore, or of the fast bowler hos curtailed his effectiveness are only possible with the aid of heavy taxation, Meeses, Gine, LIVINGSTON & Co., at Hongkong.
The successful tenderer will be required all-round orioketer. Of Gloucestershire it which India would be unable to meet-Indian
may he said that the all-round talent of the Textile Journal, to deposit with the Finance Commisioner Grace family planted it in the first class, that Sandakan, Becurity to the value of three months the personality of Jessop keeps it there, but Farm rent by means of a deposit of money to the that, spart from the skipper, the wicket-keeper, mount of one mouth's Form rent, and of title and the one bowler, there is not a really first- deeds to the amount of two months' Farm rent class cricketer on the side.
(4) The retail rates for Chanda fixed by Government for the Opium Farm fre 1910, 1911 and 1912 are those specified below:- $2.40
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and there a county, by utilising a blend
of thres distinct vintages birth qualification, re sidential qualification, and importation barely maintains its position as "effioient," but, to be brief, we could name at least eight counties now credited with the title of first class
any one
of which is likely to win the Country Champion- ship in that year, shall we say, when the Univer
(4) The Opium Farmer is responsible for filing row another dead heat on the Thames.
the constant strain of
While we do not on the surface appear to be sesing that Chanda is not sold by retail at the rich in rising talent at the present era, under Opium Farm or at the Opium shops at prices the existing system we see inmore than one direc higher than those fixed by Government and tion really promising young cricketers being and named above (g.)
der The Opium and Spirit Farmers may fix spoilt having their hearts broken, in fact-un-. almost supporting, their own prices for supplying the Opiam sud single-handed, the pretensions of an ambitions Spirit Farm Shops wholesale with Chandu and bat incapable side to rank as first class. We Spirits
(During the continuanos of the Farm cannot help fancying, too, that these almost too large-hearted conaties Surrey and York- period, the Opium and Spirit Farmers will be shiro send their teams too far told, with the entitled to the use of a Trade-mark (to be emit that naturally fine players not only approved by Government) to be affixed to any become stale later on, but even early in the Срінка от
Chandu vassal containing pared by them, and to say | göáson are tempted to adopt the tactics of the | As soon as the new Farmers have been long distance runner and make no attempt to
force the pace.” appointed by the Governor, they will be required to sulmait in writing, showing full particulars to the Eecretary to the Governor a Behedule of the Title. Deeds they purpose to deposit with the Government as security for the said two months' Farm rout. If these are considered satisfactory, the new Farmers will be required to execute a mortgage of the property to the Government as provided for by kw.
(4) The Farmer for the West Coast may be THE WORKS are well equipped with required to ront certain Farm buildings at
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HOW TO BIOHTEN FICKET. "In view of the rurreyltes journey to Hud- dersfield, stamps were pulled up early and the match was left drawn.”
This is not a quotation exactly, but merely a sample of what too often happens on one gronad or another. From the gate money point of view possibly this theory leaving one game un- finished in order to begin another work out all right ut is it cricket? Not the cricket, ver- tainly, which we were accustomed to see in the early Grace ora, "therealmy days when saints were many and sins were few-in other words, when cricketers played to win, saatches were less numerous wicketa more difficult, and centuries few and far between.
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