LOCAL SPORT,
ROWING.
NOTES FROM JAPAN,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 1909.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
TOKYO, October 5th. THE COMMERCIAL · SITUATION, It has been decided by the VRC-to hold the
The past month has witnessed very steady Victoria Regatta on Saturday, 11th December, instead of 18th December as previously strangul, progress-in-the-commercial situation. In my in order to avoid clashing with the AAA. last letter I reported the advance of the month of Sports So far only the Chairman's Challenge principal stocks during the
appreciation was continued Cap is fired, but other events will be arranged August. The later. Entries close on Wednesday, 27th inst., throughout September, but the market has not been so steady and there are indisations that at 6 pm. when crews will be selected.
the Unit has been reached. In the case of all the gilt-edged stooks there has been much
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
oholera epidemica who have not had the disease at all, but have lived in a nous dread of it Undoubtedly there has been a lot of nervousness in Yokohama in the past month over this alleged meningitis, and not a little illness in consequence from nervousness,
THE DOG AND THE CIGLE.
A good story has been going the rounds. The other day a very well dressed and dignified Japanese took a sest in a first-class carriage at Yokohams in one of the new non-smokers, and pulled out a cigar. The only other occupant was a foreigner, who tells the tale. Before the train started for Shimbashi, however, there en-
AFRICAN GAME TRAILS. BY. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
thrust into and
relations will grow, as they ought to grow, steadily better and not only in East Africa, but everywhere also,
MEETING WITH BELOUS.
The quarterly meeting, took place on the votuation during the past ten days, and the terod a bustling, pompous, autocratic America of savage men and perimposed upon a wilderness of anything like his experience has evor also.
Happy Valley course from October 16th to 18th, present month is hardly. likely to be go prog.lady. The dowager was followed by an amah with the following resulta
MACEWEN cup.
H. S. Sweeting
90
Gross Handicap. Net.
76
14
A. Bitchie
90
13
H. Pinckney.
93
12
Major Close
90
5
A. Morfoy
99
13
86
93
6
87
18
II. G. Bagnall 108
J. G. 8. Causden...
27 Entries
+A. Ritchie
A. Morfey
Remainder ne roturu.
HEAVIS
H. 8. Sweeting
H. Pinckney.
Major Close
C. R. Satterthwaite
H. G. Bagnall
UP,
Rec. 10 2 up
14-2 duwnL
10 9 4 4 5 5
ม
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perous from the operator's point of view, as the last month's developments in China com bined the continued sluggish state of trade, and with cortain domestic events all contribute to check the boom which brokers anticipated at the end of July.
THE LANK OF KOREA.
The subscription to the Bank of Korea shares was much greater than anticipated, and the
a
day,
THERE IS SKILL AND
IN ALL
PIANOS
WE IMPORT
on deck around Selque to listen to tales of those BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR
THIS CLIMATE. strange adventures that only coma to the man who has lived, long the lonely life of the wilder.
ness.
WELCOME AT MOMBASA
On the whip at Naples we found Solons, also THOROUGHNESS The great world movement which began with the voyages of Columbar and Vasco di Gama, bound for East Africe on a hunting trip; but and has gone on with ever-increasing rapidity he, s veteran whose first hunting in Afrion WÁI
OF CONSTRUCTION and complexity until our own time, has de- nearly forty years ago, cared only for orOD'D- veloped along a myriad lines of interest. In national trophies of a very few animals, while wo, way has it been interesting than in the way in on the other hand, desired specimens of both which it has resulted in bringing into sudden, sexes of all the species of big game that Karmit violent, and intimato contact phasis of the and I could shoob, as well as complete series of world's life history which would be normally all the smaller manuals. We believed that our ment. Again and again, in the continents new be done with the small mammals. separated by untold centuries of slow develop best work of a purely scientific character would to peoples of European stook, we have seen the No other hunter alive has had the experience spectacle of a lighi civilisation all at once of Selons, and so far as I now recall, no bunter sarage beasts. Nowhere, and possessed his gift of penetrating observation at no time, has the contrast been more strange joined to his power of vivid and accurate. rhinoceros, and hundreds of elephant and and between them they had about twelve parcels during the last dozen peatly andor the equator, buffalo and those four animals are the most
The country. .Bes and more striking than in British East Africa narration. He has killed scores of lioti nad and the hinterland, dus west, contains the hugs daugerous of the world a big game, when large and small. When the train started the
naturalist than to a lady was still investigating whether these Nystiza lakes, vast inland sens which gather the hunted as they are hunted in Africa. To hear STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAT
There were on the ship many men parcels were all right, during which operation head-waters of the White Nile. The hinter him tell of what he has seen and done is no the Japanes smoker only got the back view of land, with its lakes and its marshes, ita snow-less interesting to a the lady of generous expanse. At length she capped mountains, its high, dry plateaus, and hunter.
unknown to white men half a century ago. hunters of big game, and almost every sat down opposite, and going the unconcerned its forosta of dolly Inruriousness, was utterly who loved wild narave, and, who wem SUPERIOR VALUE Japanese drawing dreamily at his weed an- The map of Ptolemy in the second century of we steamed over the hot, smooth waters of the nounced in tragic tones that this was not car era gave a more securate view of the lakus, Red Sos and the Indian Ocear, we would gather
The offender, who did not mountains, and had waters of the Nile than smoking car,
the maps published at the beginning of the on smoking. English, wont understand
second half of the nineteenth century, just be
On April 21 we steamed into the beautiful Suddenly the lady pointed at the rigar fors Spoke, Grant, and Baker made thr with outstretched form, and again spoke in the trip potion great
turons missiqualios, tagiers, and elephant has and picturesque harbour of Mombasa. Many to use when addressing her husband. No notice ters, and many men whom risk did not daunt, centuries before the Christian em dhows from commanding tones she was donotless toppstored these explorers came others; and then nivea was taken. A moment later the cigar of the puzzl who feared ucisher danger nor hardship, Arabia, carrying seafarers of Semitie races ed and half-terrifed Japanese was dying through traversed the country hither and thither, now whoso very names, have perished, rounded the southward along the barren African const. Such dhows exist to-day almost unchanged, and hold the window. The passenger, who was consider. ralists, now is gergraphors, and again ne soit vartalonat Guardaful and crept slowly ROBINSON PIANO
CO.. LTD. indeed were the men who first steered them ably offended but did not know exactly how to Government officials, or as macro wanderers who
across the unknown oceans. They were mon act in the circumstances, thinking probably this loved the wild and strange life which had sur-
Most of the tribos wore of pure savages, but of iron heart and supple conscience, who was the way men were treated in the West,vived over from an ekler age. sat nursing his wrath. His eyes became fired here and there wers intrusive races of higher fronted inconceivable danger and hardship. upon the amplo proportions of the lady's boson; type; and in Uganda, beyond the Victoria They established trading stations for gold and thousands of cannibals in the hostile ranks, the upper stages of barbariem, which might Arab, half negro. Mombasa was among them.battle the warriors of the muu-exting tribes something else under her shawl besides what proper, lived a people which had advanced to stations into Little cities and saltanates, ought to be there, for the protuberance was
almost be said to have developed a very priui In her time of brief splendour Portugal seized watched their chance to batcher the wounded Over this people the town; the Arabs won it back, and now indiscriminately and to feast on the bodies of
(To be continued) much larget on one side than on the other. I tive kind of semi-civilisation. The papers ara again paying attention to the fact it was tiny Chin dog which the lady had for its good-fortune-Great Britain establishEngland holds it. It lies just south of the the slain.
FUTURE OF RUBBER in the heart of the Dark Continent, the Britüh The Buffs and R.E. met for the third time project first mooted in 1907 for connecting smuggled through the wicket and on board the ed a protectorats; and ultimately, in order to Equator, and what we saw it the brilliant
PROSPECTUS ESTIMATES OF PROFITS. since the arrival of the former in the Colony, Tokyo and Osaka with an electric railway, the train in defiance of the regalations. In Japsu get easy access to this new outpost of civilisation green of the tropic foliage showed the town at on Saturday, and the Buffs in lowering the promoters of which enterprise wundertake to rau to defy the regulations is a serious thing, and Govomment built a railroad from the old Arab Sepper's colours on this occasion, share honoure an express service between the two cities in six a scheme of revenge developed in the passenger's coast town of Mombasa westward to Victoria with their opponents. One match resulted in a hours. This line, would prove a formidable com wily brain. Watching his opportunity the Japan Nyanza. drawn game, and each testo in its turn has potitor with the Tokside Railway in passenger ese gentleman enddenly made a dart forward, secured a win, but in goals the Buffs lead, Lavingtraffle, forthe latter, a narrow gane lino, cannot do seized the poor Chin and throw it out of the scored five grids to the Sappers four. The the journey under about cleven hours. It is window after the cigar, to the consternation of league champions were value for their win of diffoult to understand the policy of the Govern. all. Half a minute later the train drew up in Saturday, outclassing their opponents at every meat in the matter of railways. On the one Kanagawa station. The outraged lady, terrible tara Fitzpatrick, the Buffs' goalkcoper of last hand the Government grants the charters right in her wrath, rushed to the window to lodge a season, played outside to Drew, and his versatility, and left to electric railway companies, whose complaint, who she saw her Bitle pot running lines ran in competition with the steam along the platform, wagging his tail joyously an a footballer make his services valuable.
the other hand the with something in his mouth. Now what do railways, and The bad hook which haunted the R.E. team restricted in various ways in the you think it was? The moral of this story is not last sonson was again with them on Saturday matter of speed and other powers, and ultimate to jump at conclusions. It has been done to when Beardmore and Cozen were unable to turn out. Morrish pinged a splendid game at ly become the property of the State. The death in the clubs, and several Japanese, ready hack, but he was missed so much in the forward capital for the new electric railway is estimated with a too eager answer, have been victimised to were in that bygone age represented. by it should be, for at least part of the lighi inland demanat and supply, brit does not think that line that the Sappar in future would do well to at a hundred million you. The lipe would of the extent of drinks round.
course-traverse a good deal of conntry miles away from the Tokaido Railway, but in many
27 Entries. Remainder no return.
II. S. Sweeting
TA. Ritchie
A. Morfoy
H. Pinckney
R. P. Walker
Major Close...
POOL.
Rec. 10 2 up
11 2 down 10 2
9.2
.4.4
11. 6
*Wins McEwan Cup.. *Wins Beavis Cup.
Wins Pool.
FOOTBALL NOTES
.
remember that the heat defence is a strong
attack.
*
consequence is that only those who subscribed for enormous amounts got a reasonable share. As an example of the rate of over-satsuription, one morokant who desired to invest to thousand yen, and who subscribed BC,000 you, has been allotted the comfortable amount of two shares!
It is impossible to say exactly how many times the issue was over-antscribed; but it is safeo to say that the small investor-has very little interest in the Bank of Korea, although it was the (fovernment's desire that the people should participate. The great corporations and other Ansucial magnaten have absorbed the ball of the stock of the Bank of Korea, and so it will go shares, which are only five-yon paid-up, are quoted at thirty yen.”“
as
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on to the end of the chapter. At present those and gradually it dawned upon him that there was Nyanza, and on the head-waters, of the Nileivory and slaves; they turned these trading for, on whichever side they fought, after every
GOVERNMENT RAILWAY, POLKY,
الان
as
places it would run practically parallel. While THE TRADE OF NORTHERN CHINA, five among, and ou, and in constant dread
its boat.
half
ARE THEY PUT TOO HIGH?
We were welcomed to Government House in Lieutenant-Governor ackson, who is not only A PRIMITIVE LAND
a trained public official of long experiance, but most cordial fashion by the Acting Governor,
good field naturalist and renowned big Rubber appears to be as provocative of argu This railroad, the embodiment of the esger,
game hunter-indeed, I could not too warmly went as it is conducive to money making, just express my appreciation of the hearty and now, says the Financial Times, of September 9. masterfel, materialistic civilisation of to-day, was pushed through a region in which nature, was in Europe in the late. Pleistocene. The official world throughout East Africa. We pries of the commodity, a batch of correspon- both as regards wild man and wild beast, did generous courtesy with which we were received Since our article of Friday Inst on the shortage not and does not differ materially from what it and treated, alike by the of cial and the un- of the Pars, supplies and the, continued night the rainy correspondent points out that, whilst formerly comparison is not fanciful. The teeming multi-landed in the kind of torrential downpour that dates has reached as questioning the basis of some of them, the terrible nature of others, and Panama at certain moments in tules of wild creatures, the stupendous size of only comes in the Tropics, it reminded me of profits fixed in some recent prospectuses. One the low culture of many of the savage tribes, season That night we were given a dinner by it was customary to estimate profits on the basis moet the merchants and planters of the town ds. per lb. net, and over 4s. per lb. groes. The especially of the hunting tribes, substantially the Mombasa Club, and it was interesting to of 2s. 6d. por lb. the standard recently has been reproduced the conditions of life. in Europe na it was led by our ancestors ages before the dawn and the neighuurhood as well as the offeials. writer contends at the present price, which he The great boasts that now five in East Africa to Germans and Italisas-which is quite se modity, will-readjust itself under the hw of of anything that could be called civilisation. The former included not only Englishman, but admits is due to a present shortage of the com alose kinsfolk in Europe; and in many region of British East Africa can be made one return to the former normal prices will occur places, up to the present moment, Arican hond of "white man's country," and to achieve for some years; in fact, until the plantation
armed
this white men should work heartily together, companies further develop, man, absolutely naked, and
From inquiries, However, made in Mincing our early paleolithic ancestors meza armed doing suunnions justice to the natives, but re- of these beasts, just as was true of the men this particular kind of now land depend ex dealing in the raw article and in the shares of mom bering that progress and development in Lane, hint is the chief market both for to whom the cave lion was a nightmare of clusively upon the masterful leadership of the plantation companies, it appears that 48. per lt. it would open up some districts and encourage
terror, and the mammoth and the woolly whites, and that therefore it is both a calamity is a very conservative estimate for future plan
prospects of the industry. It is true that in the growth of all industries, this advantage
rhinoceros possible but most formidable pray and a orime te permit the whites to be rive tation profits, having regard to the presont
This region, this great fragment out of the in sunder by hatrede and jealousia.
June last and quite recently prospectusos were would not by any means compensate for the loss
const regions of British East Africa arisaned basing profta at 28. 6d. per lb. and less the country now suffers by the limited capacity of the railway communication between Tokyo and
long-baried past of our race, is now accessible or naturalist, while even to the ordinary tra the hinterland is, and there everything should we find the Highlands and Lowlande Para Osaka. It is between such points so these that
by railroad to all who care to go taither; and the trade of the country circulates, and hatter
no fiold more inviting offers itself to hunter not suited for extensive white setilaments hat hut this is exceptionsd; for as for back as 1906. The year has seen several firms of old reller it terms with interest. On March 23, be done to encourage suck settlement. Non- Rubber Co. calculating its future profila at 59. for that a large sam should be spent on increas ing the number of tracks and elevating the standing go to the wall, and ram our has 1909, I sailed thither from New York, in charge white aliens should not be encouraged to settle per lb. This company's products certainly permanent way of the Tokaido line, for this been busy concerning the delicate financial of a scientific expedition sent out by the Smith where they come inte rivalry with the whites alwaye obtain the very highest prices raling, not so highly cultivated were estimated at 36., Of the new players who turned, uut for the world enable the growing freight trafic to position of others, which have happily, how-sonian, to collect birds, mammals, reptiles, and (exception being made as regards certain parti- but, at the same time, profils on other propertiss the cost of, in some cases, large reduction the National Musouin af Washington. In addi-pations); hat there are large regions in which 4d per lb. and others at much less. The olub on Saturday Ben Chapmann and Jasper move more freely and would obviate the almost over, weathered the storm so far, but at plants, bat especially specimens of big game, for onlar individuals and certain particular ocen
few months previously), the India, and there are many positions in other as the conditions of the individual properties Clarke were Bent. Barlow was suffering from constant interruption now experienced during of staff. The worst feature in the situation is tion to myself and my son Kormit (who had it would be wise to settle immigrants from matar conclusion is that estimates are based
How easily the that little hope is held ont of immediate im- entered Harvard
PROBABLE COURSE OF PRICES the effects of a recent illness, as was also Weston periods of bad weather.
The more important question is what is likely who after the match had to be assisted home. The Tokaido Railway is closed to traffic was ilius-provement but there is no doubt that the party consisted of three naturalists-Surgeon regions which it is to the advantage of every and that there is no general rule.
import business, once the present difficulties Lientenant Colonel Edgar A. Mearns, U.S.A., body that the Indians should hold, because Glabsre indeed fortanate in having such mer attrated a few days ago. In consequence of one
are cleared away, will rise again on a. sounder retired; Mr. Edmond Heller, of California, and there is as yet no sign that suffoient numbers their call, who will place themselves so in night's heavy rain, on Monday morning last toodation and that the present alamp and the Mr. J. Alden Loring, of Owego, NY. My of white men are willing to hold them, while to be the future course of rubber prices? Prior indulged in by foreign through two valued English friends, Mr. fairly well in unskilled labour, are not yet con averaged 58. 44. par that is, free 1886 to reservedly at their disposed, but of course discre-week, the line between Ofins and Yokohama nonsequent exposure of the unsound methods arrangouts for the trip had behielly made the native blacks, although many of them do to the existing boom the price of Para rubber tion is often the batter part of valour, was completely under water. Along the whole of business rohants are will have been Froderick Courtsor Selous; the greatest of the potent to do the higher tasks which now fall to 1907 the highwater mark being in 1906, when and I sincerely hope naither are any the worse thres hundred miles of track between Tokyo to the ultimate good of the trade of Tien world's big-game hunters, and Mr. Edward the share of the Gognese, and Mostem and 400 it touched 58. 31. As is well-known, the lowest were tsin. Foreign And Chinese firias have boon too North Buxton, also a mighty hunter. On land- Moslemn Indians. The small merchants who price was recorded early in 1908, when it fell to for the sacrifice they made on this occasion, and Osake washouts and landslides
Kowloon had matters pretty much their own frequent, and for several days afterwards desirous of getting rich quickly, the former ing we were to be met by Messrs. R. J. Caning deal with the natives, for instance, and most of 2. 94. Since that period it fias gradually risen, traffe was confined to sections and there was accepting orders from brokers without capital hame and Leslie Tarleton, both famous hunters, the minor railroad officials, belong to those latter with occasional fluctuations to the prosent way on Saturday against Naval Yard. rapid progress made by the new club points to very little through traffic. All this occurred and without adequate guarantees, the latter the latter an Australian, who served through classes. I was amused, by the way, at one bit abnormal quotation of 8s. per lb. There is no asaccessful season, and I expect in the match because in soins places the railway is raised but ordering more and mero goods, whether they the South African war, the former by birth & of native nomenclature in connection with the ovidence of any events likely to take place
Playing with the same men as they had in their first league match the Gunners were easily value for a win against the Club. The exchange of positions between Bellis and Mash was a decided improvement on the previous arrangement. The Gunners lose the services of Waters and Weaver in a few weeks, but two equally good players are being kept in training to take their place
The
with the RE, they will go all the way for the brace of points. Van Ginkel is on the injured list and will not play for a week or two but Socy. Blackburn is leaving no stone unturned to find an able saltitute.
very little above the level of the surrounding country and in the mountain districts danger is always to be apprehended from landslides. Seeing that such interruptions to traffio odour regularly every year, it is difficult to under- stand why a determined effort is not made to The prospects of the Naval Yard Club, with protect the railway from the elements. There 13 gouls against thom in two matches, are by has been some talk of the broadening of this no means rosy, The yarders are not discouragline to standard gange, which would involve an enormous expenditure, estimated at 300 million ed, however, and hope with a re-arranged team to put up a good game against the B.A, on you. The Railway Board cannot see ita way to sack an outlay at the present time, but without Saturday.
altering the gauge, a great deal could be The second division teams are due to make a done to increase the capacity of the line start on Saturday when I expect to me the and even if this improvement were only temporary it would do more to benefit the trade military teams came out on top.
of the country than the establishment of the Among the latest recommendations by the projected electric railway, which will never be International Board is one advising clubs to anything more than a fonal service of rapid supply goalkeepers with colours in contrast to the remainder of the team. In making the recommendation it is pointed out that if this
* •
transit.
DEATH THE REAPER AND MEKINGITIS,
The trade reports issued by the Chinese Maritime Customs include an interesting report on the trade of Tientsin for the year 1908, We take from it the following extracts on the chaotic condition of the Chinese currency and the stagnation of trade:
and Chinese
·
But
The
INDIAN IMMIGRATION,
these
liable
was done, reforces would more readily be able several of the members of the foreign com.thereafter duties could be paid at Hangying Army officere going out to take command of 1 dwolls in Africa autonched, or bat lightly quantity exported for both periods was practi-
had a market for them or not, and obtaining Scotchman, and a Cambridge maan, but long a Geanese. Many of the Groanese are now as tending to lower the price until the pantation resident of Africa, and at one time a profes- dark as most of the other Indians; but they returns in some messure seriously compete with are descended in the male line from the early Para supplies, which will not be for years to Portuguese adventurers and conquerors, who come, even at the present rapid rate of produc
tion. The collection of the wild rubber, more and more credit from the banks
We sailed on the Hamburg from New York were the fret white men ever seen by the the time arrived when the banks refused further sional slephant hanter. credit, with the result that the import firms ENGLISH AND GERMAN EMPILE BUILDERS.
a hazardous procedure, fraught were left with large stocks on their hands con-
incredible- over. those he go down to the ses in ships and at some of the natives speak even of the dark- Brasil-is tracted for by native merchants, who could not-wh headway the German have made among natives of this coast. Accordingly to this day universally known as Para-a product of to diminish obtain the wherewithal to take them
German line, the East African. On both ships Houry the Navigator as "the whites, desig hardships, while the scanty labonz supply.
reasons, The aura due to the foreign merchants for un- Naples transhipped to the Admiral, of another skinned descendants of the subjects of King with heavy loss of life and Tis 10,000,000, and the import firms have been we were as comfortable as possible, and the nating the Europeans specifically as English, for delivered cargo is stated to be a great as
Since and then ss at the Azores, at Suez, and at nooks in the far North-West one of our own red Government seriously takes up the question of transport. Brokers in the commodity inform forced to charge interest after using, ovary voyage was wholly devoid of incidents, Now Germans, or the like; just as in ont-of-the-way rather than to increase, antil the Brazilion effort to get the stocks taken up...
Ins that they can see no present evidence that some dozens or scoren of birds-which next of Americans and Englishmen as" Boston wen
the lower prices ruling in past years will be the year 1900 the standard of the eyes onrrant Aden, the thras naturaliste landed, and collected men will occasionally be found who still speake in the port has been steadily deteriorating, and
One of the Government farms was being run again reached. Whilst Eastern planters can, it the touch, supposed to be 992, has fallen day were skinned and prepared in my room, and King George's tuen." as low as 965. Matters came to a crisis as the largest and best-fitted for the purpose. in February, 1908, by the issue on the After reaching Suez the ordinary tourist by an educated coloured man from Jamaica is true, market rabber at a cost of la, per lb., un
man from our own country who was practising roughly 3e, to collect.
BRAZILIAN-PRODUCTION--NOT STIMULATED. part of the Toatai of a notification to the effect type of passenger ceased to be predomi and we were shown much courtesy by a coloured the other hand, in Brazil, every lb, costs about It is avident, in short, that the present high that, it being stipulated by treaty that duties nant; in his place there were Italian officers should be paid in pura silver, from the let going out to a desolate coast town on the edge as a doctor. No one could fail to be impressed March duties would have to be paid at the of Sumaliland; missionaries. German, English, with the immense advance these men repre. equivalent of Haugping Tls. 107 for Haikan and America; Portuguese civil officials sented as compared with the native negro; price has not stimulated South American pro Ts. 100, of the Hangping Tls 105 raid there-traders of different nationalities; and planters and, indeed, to an American, who must necas daction; in fact, a recent dispatch on the foreign resulted, and was followed by a further notifica and British East Africa The Englishmen it is pleasant to be made to realise in vivid the six months to 30th June last were valued at tofore. A protest from all the foreign merchants and military and civil officers beand to German sarily think much of the race problem at home, trade of Brazil states that while the exports for tion, on the 28th September: 1908, to the offout included planters, magistrates, forest ofvials, fashion the progress the Americas negro has £8,302,000, sud those for the corresponding that the previous notification was cancelled and Army officers on leave from India, and other male, by comparing him with the negro who period of 19308 at only £5,752,494, yet that the In the space of one week death has removed that
105-Baikwan Tls. 100, but that sal duties black native fovies in out-of-the-way regions touched, by white infinence.
In such a community no one finds in Mombass Englishman, whether
sor Nairabi one continually runs across quiet, mo- manities of Tokyo and Yokohama, ali of whom must be paid in Kungku silver. This gave cise where the English flag stands for all that are reported to have died from the same disease, to further difficulty, as the foreign banks were makes life worth living. They were a fine
possessed only of current sycee and would not set, these young namely, meningitis. This complaint appears to honour a cheque marked "Kungku silver." dashing Aray officers or capable civilians: have been almost epidemic in Yokohama, for Merchants have thus been put to great inconthey reminded me of our men who have dest men whose lives have been faller of wild several foreigners have been down with it, renience in paying duty, having either to pay reflected such honour on the American name, adventure than the life of a Viking leader of according to the papers. But a foreign doctor in sy eee or purchase a native order at a premium whether in civil and military positions in the ninth century. One of the public afficinis from one of the six melting shops licensed by the Philippines and Porto Rico, working on whom I met at the Governor's table was Major who was consulted by a young man "out of the Assay Office. The position is briefly this: the Canal Zone in Fannina, taking care of the lindo. Ho had at one time served under the the Chinese authorities hold that merchants are Custom houses in San Domingo, or serving in Government of the Congo Free State; and, at The matches arranged for yesterday had to sorts" gave it as his opinion that the belief that
stimulation to nationali- that they must do so whatever be the standard felt as if I know most of them already, for they Arab slave-tradora bid fair to get the upper be postponed, and it is not expected that any meningitis was epidemio visa fallacy. Ker bound by treaty to pay duty in pure silver and the Army of Occupation in Cuba. Moreover, I-esisis in the fortunes of the State, when the further matches will be played this week
usas to which the commodity could be put. It owing to the sodden condition, of the pitch did he believe that the deaths which had occur of the local currency the merchants, on the might have walked out of the pages of Kipling. hand, he was one of the eight or ten white men,
must be remembered that a very large proportion The example shown by our premier club in red had been cansen by meningitis in every other hand, claim that the authorities are respon. But I was not as well prepared for the correrepresenting hall as many distinct nati thus providing games for all their members
from the plantations and from wild sources, and officers who had commanded, or were about Arab power. They organised the wild is one that could well be followed by other clube ease. The season has been particularly trying,sible for the depreciation in the currency and sponding and equally interesting types among ties, who overthrow the savage soldiery of the be a much larger consumption owing to the new and the recent change in the weather has found that they should bear the loss occasioned the Gormans, the planters, the civil officials, the slave traders and shattered beyond recovery the
thereby..
to command, white or native troops; men of tribes just as their Arab foes bad done; they of the inferior grades is sold at 48 or 54. both öven if the price of the best brands were to to their advantage, as many a "dark horse"
out the weak spots in ordinarily healthy con-
evilant power and energy, seeing whom made it fought in a land whore deadly sickness struck is in this way brought to notice.
stitutions. This combined with indiscretions
easy to understand why German East Africa down victor and vanquished with ruthless im such as drinking unboiled water, going without HOW-TO DE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- has thriven apaco. They are first-class men, partiality; they found their commissariat as recede to 2s. 6d. per lb. there would still be good head covering in the min, over-exertion at sport plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmante, Lait these English and Germans; both are doing in beat they could wherever they happened to bo; profits for the planters, though in all probability (I am still quoting the docter), has brought Charmant and Special Skin Tonio and Poudra East Africa a work of worth to the whole world; eften they depended upon one day's victory still smaller supply of wild rubber. Mean- young fellows to bed. In alf epidemics and so. Charmant will enable you to do it. Her there is ample room for both, and no possible to furnish the ammunition with which to wage time consumption incremes on the presont basis Specialities for the Skin are the study of a cause for any but a throughly friendly rivalry; the morrow's battle; and even they had to be of supplies, and there is no doubt that whother
promising. called epidemies nervousness is a great factor, fetime, A. 8. Watson & Co. Ltd. Sole Agents, and it is earnestly to be wished in the interest on guard no less against the thousands of estimates are based on optimistic lines or not. of both of them, and of outsiders too, that their cannibals in their own ranks than against the the outlook for plantation rubber is exceedingly and people have been known to die during
to tell when hands are used in scrimmages which often take place in the goal area.
LEAGUE GOAL SCORERS.
Taylor (Buffs)...
Brown (Kowloon)
5
Nash (GA)/
3
REFEREE.
H. K. CLUE BIX÷A-SIDE.
Club **
..Goal
For Agst.
0
1
1
1
A. Gregory's VI 2 0 1 1 ELO. Garrett's VI.1 0 1 0
0
E. G. Carrol'e VI. 2-2 00 J. D. Danby's VI. 2..0 0 2 W. Weston's VI... 1 0 0 1
CHINA Points.
1453
··KNIGHTS MERANT OF TO-DAT.
pagan
cally
equal that 18, 22,000 tons in round figures. It is clear, therefore, that all the indications point to the prices of rubber being maintained in future at a much higher average Meantime all the production estimates of the rate than in the past. plantation companies are being exceeded, but, nevertheless, the ourrent prices obtained for the article are beyond the wildest dreams of the Eastern pioneer promoters. There are, how-
increased production would then me not sanguino of this consummation. The the price down to 42. or 58, but they adult they
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in the business who would like to see