RUBBER NOTES.
A NONGKONG COMPANY,
The first rubber company formed in Hong keng kas just been incorporated. The capital of Toorangie Rubber Company, Limited, is £100,000 in £1 sbarce, of which £3,700 fally paid shares (vendors), and £56,300 shares, on which 7/6 has been paid, have been issued. The estate which the company has been formed to acquire is situated close to the United Langkat Plantation Company's property. area approximately of 10,000 pers.
A CAUTIONARY WORD..
It has an
With various well-known rubber shares stpro- miums of 2,500 and 3,000 per cent. (writes a correspondent of the Globe), has not the time.
scarcely any reot disease, and white ants are BGArca A further seventy acres is being felled. The estimated yishle will be much exceeded. The rubbor from the factory is very good and the tapping in some of the best work in the States. I am sure that Gloneals will prore & sound investment. The total capital is only $300,000, and for this about 1,000 acres will be brought into hearing. Good dividends may be expected in the montime”
▲ DUTCH FLOTATION, Messrs. Bohnsfer & Co, informed the Singa- pore Press on April 13th that the Hajoep (Datel Borneo) Rubber states have been nocessfully donted in London.
DIVIDENDE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 21ST, 1910.
Messrs. Osborne & Chappel, the agents of come for the exercise of a little common-tongen Lid, inform the Times of Molays that a by the average speculator? Wise people on the farther dividend of 1/. has been doclared.
The Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., Ltd., has inside of the rig are already quietly liquidat- ing their holdings as they can, and the au-declared a final dividend of 30 por cont., making nouncement that companion are now to be 80 per cent. for the year, and carried forward Bostad to take over blocks of shares too big and £12,912 Thpf. o. b. cost of the rubber pro unwieldy to dispose of in the market shows that ducel was 10 2/5d. per lb. The estimate of some of those who have garnered mach paper crop for 1910 is 700,000 lb. from recent flotations are quito content to transfer their risks to the public. In six manths from now a number of the boards of existing companies will be courteously inform ing shareholders that "prospects are excellent even at the lower price to which rubber hes. fallen," but that "enhappily a sufficiency of labour for planting and tapping and other pur.
poses cannot be secured."
WISE MEN TAKE PROFITS,
Stateronts of this kind will be plentiful as lenvos in Vallombross in a brief spaco frism now. It is notorious that West Africa, for instance, is rich beyond description in rubber, but the product might as well not exist at all, sinco the natives absolutely decline to tap on any terms whatever. Some of the companies (in other parts of the globe) will continue to do well, but these are only a small fraction of the compazies in whose shares the gamble has been taking place. A wise move on the part of the zan who has rubber profits to take is, says the Globe, to make sure of them, and bay the best Kafirs with them.
BROKERS' CHARGES.
The other day a correspondent wrote to the Straits Times on the subject of broker's charges, and said he thought they are far too high. Commenting on his letter, the Malay Mail, in the course of a short editorial, says-In any case iva centi per share on dollar ahares sons rather high. With regard to his suggestion that the newspapers should be utilised as stock exchanges, itia a curious coincidence that we re ceived for insertion yesterday an advertisement of shares for sale. To carry out the suggestion, of course, is at the option of the public. In some ways it might be useful, and it might tend to more accurate quotations of shares which are largely dealt in. The invester or speculator who studies the difficult broker's lists ut pro- sant is merely bowildered. We agree, how ever, with our Singapore contemporary that no newspaper would accept any responsibility whatever. It is quite enough for most jour nalists to have to suffer for sins which, if they are sins, should be attributed to the brokers.
NEW COMPANY.
The Kuala Lumpur correspondent of the Straits Times telegraphed on April 14th-~ Madingley Estate, near Kajang, is being floated in London on April 18th. The capital £40,000, and the parchase price £25,000 The acreage is 500, of which 282 ore planted, The directors are Mr. Metcalfe and three others. It is stated to be already over-subscribed privately.
MARCH RETURNS.
THE TRADE OF SHANGHAI,- Notwithstanding the counter attractions of rubber speculation, it is satisfactory to learn from the Imperial Maritime Customs' roturas that the trade of Shanghai during the January March quarter of 1910 shows an improvement on that during the same quarter last year, There is in all a total increase in duties of IIk. have made a really remarkable advance. It is to be regretted that the trade in cotton piece foods should still be under : cloud. The import of cotton yarn has gone up from 374,673 pionls in 1969 (the quarter ander review) to 381,744 picule in 1910. But the import of picco-goods has fallen from 3,030,716 pieces to 1,958,695; and the export from 51,000 piecos te 45,360, No doubt the high price cotton is mainly responsible, as it has been" impossible to replonish stocks at any price that the Chinese can afford to pay. Exported native cloth has fallen from 16,455 picule in 199 to 14,959 piouls in 1910, and exported cotton yarz raw cotton has advanced from 105,760 to 194,798 from 169,293 piculs to 71,725, but the export of plouls. The export of raw silk of all kinds has remained very nearly stationary, the figuras being, in 3909, 17,700 piouls and in 1910, 17,538. Of boans and peas there is also a noticeable falling off from 552,619 picals to 506,219.
Tla 696,872; and one or two lane of busines
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COMPANY REPORT,
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED,
Gentlemen-Your directors have the pleasure to submit the accompanying sintoment of the account for the year ending 28th February 1910.
The balance at cradit of Proflt and Loss pe count is 3174,790,96; after deducting directors' feas ($3,000) there remains a sum of $171,790.96 available for appropriation, and your directors recommend that this bo disposed of as follows: To pay a dividend of 12 por cout:- Say $1.20 per share on 60,000 shares To pay a bonus of 1 per cent-Say 10 conts per share on 60,000 shares To write off plant account for depre-
depreciation To write off property account for To write off furniture account for
depreciation
ciation
RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN PENANG.
The non-Roman Catholic Church in Malaya Anglican, Presbyterian, and Methodist is not in such a strong position that it can afford toomphasize the points of difference between The report of the board of directors is its various branches, much logs to advertise abroad, for the delectation of rival seats and following
mooking unbelievers, the unhappy squabbles which occasionally arise among its members. Personally we are inclined to think that a grave mistake has been made in revising in a narrow sense, entirely opposed to the spirit of hatunl tolerance and encouragement which has hither. to characterised the relations of the various sects in Penang, he constitution of the Church Work Association. These are days when the Churches, encompassed and assailed by tho forces of doubt and unbelief, should sook to Bad points of reunion and welcome $72,000.00 any opporinuity which anables them to present a united front. If the questions of 6,000.00 dogma which sourate Anglicae and Pres
byterian theologians are henceforth to influence the relations of the individual members of thear 72,065,65
Churches in Touang in regard to charitablo work and social meetings, we can only deplore 5,000.00
the fact that in a matter of this kind the com- 477.00 monsonse of the laity should have allowed itself 4,450,06 to be overruled. Certainly such a policy is for 11,798.26 remored from that of the wise und earnost Charchos at Homa who are working day $171,790.96 and night to efface the differeness and bridge the Moulties which divide the Church of England from the nonconformist bodies. Those bodies sprang from the Church of England in the past, and with them she must be reunited before she can accomplish the great social and her hands. But far graver than this tactical religious work which Providence has placed iu error is the veritablo scandal which hue arise in Kints, where, the leaders of the Church of England are busily en aged in filling the local newspaper with mutual recriminations. It is grievous that such a state of affairs as that depicted in the correspondence should over arise; it is still more grievous that it should be discipline in the Anglican Church in those parts made public; for it teris to prove how lox is the and how imporative the call for a strong, guiding hand to put things in the right path
To pay a bonus to staff To carry forward to next account
Directors.-Hos. Sir C. P. Chator, C. M. G, and Mr. E. G. Barrelt resigned their seats on leaving the Colony, and Sir H. N. Mody and Mr. G. H. Medhucet were appointed to all the vacancies. These appointments require the con- firmation of shareholders. In accordance with the Articles of Association Sir H. N. Mody and Hon. Mr. W. J. Greason retire, bat, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
Auditors. The accounts: have been audited by Messrs. W. Hutton Potts and J. Cox Mesere, W. Hutton Pofts and J. Cox. Edwards offer themselves for re-election. J. W. C. BONNAR, Chairman. Hongkong, 18th April, 1910,
Edwards.
Statement of Accounts to February 28th 1910-
LIABILITIES.
Capital:-60,000 sharos cach $10
paid up... Sandry cruditors
Dividends anglaimed" Suspense account
Balance of Profit and Loss socount 174,790.96
ASSETS.
count, cost of, as per last-account. ..... Les amount provided
for depreciation
Plant and mains Do
Against those may be set the really oxtraer dinary advance in the importation of koromone oil from 4,775,885 gallons in the first thres months of 1969 to no less than 14,843,627 gal. lons in 1910. Aniline dyes have nearly doubled themselves, the value of these imports rising from Hk. Tls, 239,780 to Hk. Tla 463,C69. The import of sugar Las risen from 420,744 pieals to 513,180; of wood ail from 61,531 to 96,435 piculs; and of metals from 211,775 picals to 230,749 picnls. On the export side of the account the most notable item is the advance in gont skins frois 2,725,603 exported pieces, in the first quarter of 1909 to 3,695,068 in 1910. The export of shoop's wool also showe good improvement, with 83,326 picals in 1910 Cost of plant, since against 62,177 in 1909. It remains to be men- tioned that the export of tea has increased slightly from 119,481 piculs to 122,599; and that while the importation of nativo opium has fallen from 5,078 picule in 1909 to 4,711 in 1910 that of foreign opinn has increased from 4,877 pienls to 7,088. Taken in conjunction with the large amount of opium that was in storage in Shanghai at the close of last year, these figures would seem to indicate that the dealers are buy ing heavily against the possibility of the Indian Government's stopping the export of opium altogether.-N.-C. Daily News.
added
ara WAT
$496,382.15
66,382.15
$430,000.00
92,065.65
Property, cost of land and buildings as por Inst account
$111,043.99
for depreciation 11,043,99 Less amount provided
Installation material, stock of Stores and coal, stock of... Tools. &v., stock of
of, as per last Furniture, cost account ... Insurance, value of unexpired
portions of policies Sundry debtors...
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation
BERLIN AND ITS OUTSKIRTS. The temptation to encrifice the beautiful wood-Cash with agents ed cutskirts of Borlin to building purposes rather than to preserve them in the interests of public health has become acuto with the extra- ordinary development of the capital and the consequent increase in the value of land. The process of derastation is most noticosble in the Granewald, between Berlin and Potsdam, but, porhaps, not most serious. In other parts of
WORKING ACCOUNT,
Dr.
A Kuala Lumpur wire states that the Entu Berlin and its enbarbs whole areas of forest hova To agency and office expenses ... Tiga rubber March erop is 6,300 lbs.
Other reports are:-
Th
return for F.M.S. was:-24,450 lbs; total for corresponding period last year, 16,617 Ibs; total for ten montie 231,060, lbs; total for corresponding period last year, 100,124 s
The return for Kuala Lumpur was:-47,000 Ibs; total for corresponding period last year, 18,610 lbs; totals for nine months, 368,320 lbs; total for corresponding period last year, 146,193
lbs.
lbs;
The March output for Port Dickson was 621 The crop onttura of the Vallambrose Rubber Company for the year ending March 21st last
was 370,902 lbs.
The Bakit Rajah Company's outturn way 309,893. Iks; and the Federated (Selangor) Com- pany's crop was 101,444 lbs for the same period.
SHARE MARKET.
disappeared, giving way not only to dwelling-To rent and taxes houses, but to factorios, parade grounds, and To insurance. even cemeteries. Meanwhile, although the fact To auditors' foes...
account...
may be concealed by its pre-eminent cleanliness To bad debts and orderliness, and even more by the universal To amount carried to Profit and Loss prevalence of fats, Berlin has er je to hara a greater density of population than almost any other great city, with the oxception of Paris. A memorsadam, which has just been presented to the Prussian Government by a committac
Cr.
of representatives of Berlin, Charlottenburg. By net profiton working... Schoneberg. Wilmersdorf, Rixdorf, Lichten By strip and transfer foss
Nieder-Baruin, and Teltow, says that the By interest... doxsity of population is in Berlin 321, as compared with 150 in London, 103 in Vienna, 62 in Munich, 50 in New York, and 31 in Chicago The fure for Faris is 354. The memorandum invites the Government to enter into negotiation for the sale or lease of the right
ovur
once more.
STRAITS GOVERNOR
CRITICISED.
"azetie prints the following
Tho, Pinang pertinent remar.
Public feeling which, in Penang and Singa $600,000.00 Toro as well as in Mainera itself, is very alrongly 5,222.50 opposed to the abolition of the post of Resident
Councillor of that ancient Settlement, is to be 7,068.09
voiced by the Flon. T. S. Baker in Council on 1,744.89
Monday, when we trust that there will be a full attendance of uncleials to protest what is $788,616.44 perhaps the most foolish of a long series of freakish blundere perpetrated by the prosont administration. It is difficult to speak in terms of judicious and respectful moderation of the fatuous obstinney with which His Excellency, in the face of the representations of the Cird Service, the people of Malacca itself, the no- offois, members of Council, and the public Press, adheres to his determination to abolish this post, and all for no better reason than "What I have said, I have said." His Excellency has now been in the Colony five years, and $522,055.65 although everyone recognises the great gifts which he has brought to hear upon the important problems he has had to solvo, and his untiring energy and ceaseless devotion to duty, the obstinacy-to use ne harshor term-with which he has persistently refused to listen to criticism, matter from what quartor it has come, or to adopt views in sny way different from his own preconceived idons, has rendered both his position Chief of the Executive and that of the Colony which he governs a good deal morodifioult than 677.00 need have been the case. It is a thousand pitias that Sir John Anderson, whose valuable services 1,600.00
to the country we should be the last to dany, 36.164.36 should discount them so seriously in tho eyes 18,505.95
of the whole population by a stubborn adherencs in this matter of the Malacca Resident-Coun- 53.795.94 ciller to an attitude of roa permuts, when a gracefal withdrawal from an untenable position $788,016:44 would be both more dignified and sagacion
100,000.00 40,507,45 13,320.62 2,279:17
$ 8,000,00
3,923.70 2,978,50 200.00
169,595,48
$185,299.61
BIT.
LANDED PROPERTY IN JAVA.
The following official communication, dated March 28th, was published by London news
paper:---
The Board of Trade desire to warn British 601,93bjects who may contemplato acquiring an interest in Inndled estate in Java that s Bill is now under the consideration of the Legislature of the Netherlands providing for the compulsory
of private owners expropriation
The Bill provides that after the Governor General by an Ordinance declares that a certain ...$184,490.99 estate or estates shall be restored to the State 16.50 Domain, the transfer of title may, failing a 792.13 mutual agreement, bo ordered by judicial sentence, which shall fix the amount of comR- $185,299.61 pensation to be paid,
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Dr.
to perpetual enjoyment of some 25.000 acres of Te amount available for appropria
tion forest domains which it is most immediately important to preserve. The total area which may be
menaced in greater or loss degree seems to be about 75,000 acres.
It is sugges ed that the municipal and com.
A Renter's telegram to the Straits Timesanal authorities concoraed might, enter into
of April 14th states: The rubber share market is still buoyant. Shares of the Ourah Ceylon Estates Company rese 30%, to-day.
RUBBER IN BORNEO
Ealber-growing among the untives in Datoh -South oast Bornes is going ahead rapidly under official prompting Government land has been granted to hundreds of natives for that purpuss In the striot of Amuntai there are extensive plaetations of Rambeng rubber. Soveral planters who have been up there have forma- lated a soheme for baying up this rabber from the growers and for working it up on the spot. Native rubber growers have ordered large quantities of rubber seedlings from Singapore.
DUTCHMEN DAUBLING IN RUBHER. The Sourabaya Handelsblad notes the setting in of the rubber fever in Bourabaya, where shares in Jars rabber companies find ready buyers. So for the companies formet in Ion don hold the field. But, the other day, a com. pany started in Shanghai bought the Limburg estate in that quarter for 1,500,000 guilders. Many of its shares have been placed at Sour baya
GLENHALY. ESTATES.
-The Times of Maloya in informed by Messrs. Aylesbury & Jarland that Mr. Maurice Maude reports on Glenealy as follows under dete April 4th Since my last visit-in Boptember the growth has been extremely good. There is
Cx.
last account close co-operation in order to find the necessary By amount of undivided profit, as par money. The financial problem is a large-ons,
By balance of working account The Prussian Minister of Agriculture stated a
brought down... year ago that the wooded districts near Berlin were worth at least £50,000,000 as building 08, and even this estimate is probably below the mark for the whole area now in question.
A COMMANDER'S DEATH,
CHASING A PIRATE FLEET. A piratical fleet consisting of ten, vessels was $174,790.96 sighted off this North Colebes coast carly this month. They are reported to have come from £174,790.96 the Sulu islands in the Southern Philippines. Dutch mon-of-war have gone in pursuit of the pirates, who apparently were making for East Boraco. The Balu islands were famed in the $5,195.48 Past for being meats of piracy. As Inte as 1880, Datch-men-of-war destroyed two fleets of Sulu 169,595.48 Pirates of the East Borneo coast. Bines then
piracy did not lift its head there until now, $174,790.96
PRINCESS UNDER AKREST.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued. the following report :--
On the 20th at 12.10 am-Tire barometer has risen moderately to considerably over Japan and the Looohoos, and fallen moderately over N, China,
The depression lying near the Lovehons yesterday has moved away Eastwardly towards
Another depression is probably developing
the NW part of the Chin Res.
FORGED BANK NOTES,
LATE HONGKONG CONTRACTOR SENTENCED.
Remarkable life histories were told at the central criminal court, London, whou two forsignore, Joseph Peter and Kaiman Elianue Albrecht, were charged with being concernoc in a plot to forge 100 kroner notes on the Austro-Hungarian Bank in London,
According to the statement for the prosecu tion, there were four persons originally con corned in the scheme, the two prisoners, a Dr. Z. Takacs, and a Hungarian girl of 24.
Albrecht, an able draughtsman, was alleged to have supplied the technical skill necessary
was sup for the forgeries, while Peter came originally from Hungary, bat Albrecht posed to have provided the money. Both men becaro a naturalised French subject, and entered the French army, in which ho gained a know. ledge of surveying and engineering. Peter, a native of Inda. Pesth, had been in the fire brigade of that city,The four prisoners in the 0850 werd in Broadstairs and Loudon at the beginning of last summer until Dr. Takacs and the young woman returned to the Continent soparately. The two prisoners lived in Guil ford St. and wore great frionds until a violent quarrel between them led to the police visiting their room and dading the materials for the making of Austro-Hungarian banknotes by means of photography.
Peter gave ovidence, and ropresented himself as having been duped. He worked as a lad, he said, on his parent's farm, and later joined the Hungarian army. Then he became a team con- ductor, and afterwards joined the fire brigade. While a fireman he was introdused to a Mrs. Takacs, who told him about wonderful inven She said that it would make a fortano if witness tion which she said her son, Dr. Takros, had. could ind the money to finares it, and sho-atse promised to find him a rich Purisian wife.
He sold his share in the farm, and wont to Paris, where he met Dr. Takees, who introduced him to Albrecht, The latter showed him sothe drawings. Winess paid ver sodic money and was theu taken to a cafe to meet the supposed rich girl who was to be his wife.
The girl was not at the café, however, and ho was told that she had left for Hongkong the previous day, but would come back. This brought him to the conclusion that the girl was amyth, and be the insisted on seeing the in. vaution. at once. He was told that it was in England, and be une to Loules with Dr. Takace, loaving Albrecht in Paris. Later when Albrecht came to London, the thres went to Broadstairs, and while they were there the youg Hungarian woman arrived as a friend After a little time the young of Albrecht's woman said she was afraid of Albrecht and left.
Witness constantly asked. Albrecht for his money back or the invention, and when he threatened to complain to the police Albrecht prevented him by saying that if he did he Albrecht) would not find the rich wife for him after all.
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PSORIASIS FROM
HEAD TO FEET
Five Doctors Treated this Bad Case -Irritation was Terrible-Suf- fered for Years and Got No Relief- Friend also Had a Rash on Face.
TWO COMPLETELY
CURED BY CUTICURA
"I had seen fvo doctors in regard to “my trouble" and not one of them gaso mo any ense. My disease was psoriasis and it was a particularly bad case, which affected me from my head to tay. foot and tho. Irritation was terrible. 1 was advised to try the Cutlenra Reme dies which I did. In the first place before retiring I used to take a fairly hot bath with Cuticura Soap and after that I used to rub the Cuticura Ointment into the alin. The Cutionra_Soap of ocurso. Was used every tino I washed. and at every bath. My eneo being a very bad and it naturally took longer to make a good impression. But after poreovering day after day for about Three weeks or a monit, I soomed to make fair progress. I first started to use Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Olut- ment about July, 1006, and my cure ca mear as I can remember was complets about October of the name year. Durlag that porlod I had no medical adviser. I had suffered with it for some years, but it seams to have completely van- ished. I were troubled with it again," the first thing I should do, and advise any of my friends to do, would be to use the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint- ment on the first signs of any skin troubles and not let it gain such a hold as it did on me the last time. A little time back, a friend of mine suffered from a rash on the face and I recorn- mended the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment which put him right in a very short time without medical aid. Alfred Levy, 1, Winkfield Rd., Lordship Lane, Wood Group, N., Eng, Mar. 23, '08."
A single treatnent consisting of a warra bath with Cuticura Soup, gentle appli ⚫cation of Cuticurn Ointment and mild dose of Cuticura Pille, is often sui- cient to afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep and point to a speedy cure of torturing, disfiguring eczemas, ranhee, itchings, irritations and Infiammations of the skin and scalp, from infancy to age, when all eko faila,
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SHIPPING RINGS IN THE STRAITS.
At the Inst testing of the Legislative Council for the Straits Settlements an important discussion as to the operations of the Shipping Conference took place,
The Hon. Dr. Galloway submitted the follow. ing motion:-
That the unofficial members of this Council,
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Albrecht, in the course of his evidence, said | after becoming a naturalised French citizen le was in the survey department of the French army, and from 1901 to 1903 was engaged on military surveys in the French Sahara. In 1903 ho went to China, under the French military sathios, add a 1905 left the army for the public works department at Amoy. got a contract for tunnelling work at Hongkong from the British Government, and in 1908 went having received and taken into consideration a to Saigon, for the French Government. He petition from ninety-two European firms, one returned to Eurono in August, 1903, went to hundred and forty European bankers, lawyers,
professional
aten, etc., thran haudred Paris, Fand then to Bada-Peath to see his and parents, and then returned to Paris, coming Chinese and Chinese firms, including the Chinese He explained that he came Chamber of Commercs, and one hundred and later to London. to London because he had invented an apparatus ninetean Indian and Mohammadan firms, re- in connection with turbine engines, and had questing them to approach Government with patented it. in France and Germany and wanted view to action being taken to free the trade of to patent it in England. He first met Peter at this Colony from the effoots of shipping con- the house in Guilford St., where Dr. Takacs was ferences, recommend that a Bill be introduced Hring under an assumed mano Dr. Takacs told at an early date to deal with this matter." Dr. him after a time that he and Peter had come to Galloway made a long and able speech, in the England for the purpose of making banknotes. course of which he showed that both the Ho was afraid to inform the police, hecnuss the majority and the minority reports of the Royal two threatened that they would say that witness, Commission of Enquiry into Shipping Rings, hold at Home, considered the Straits a par- too, had been engaged in the work
Eventually, Peter was acquitted and Albescht ticularly bad example of "ring" evils. The was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and Conference had forced the Colony to pay high rates for a class of toumaze that its trade dia certified for dopertation,
not require, while the secret robate are the “firms receiving it the admninyo of being able to, undersol other firms. He concluded by the Conferexoo oon- saying that under diliona the winrvēs are in danger of passing virtually into the possession of a group of shipownere, our trade is in danger of passing actually into the possession of neighbour ing ports, and the merchants are in danger of hecoming more marionettes at the end of a wire.
A BANK FOR WOMEN.
A bank exclusively for the use of females was opened, on March 14th, in New Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, with Miss May Baterasa as man ageress. The venture started with over four hundred transferred customers, and the clientele was increased in the course cf the day to five hundred by the advent of new depositors.
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to
The Hon. A. R. Adams made a tine speech "I was visited this morning by a lady jour nalist," said Miss Bateman, sed after I had in seconding the motion. He said there were explained our Woraen's Banking Department two aspects of the question: the disease and its remedy; the remedy must come from the to her, she was so interested in the project that Legislature, and though it was dangerous she opened an account with £5--the lowest
all amount we take. We estor for women of interfere with the liberty of contract the cry for
relief aane with great persistence limited means as well as for women of property, cleases of an intelligent community. The ques and, of course, deal only with women. Before tion here was sutirely different from that before long we hope to have a branch in every county: the recent Commission of Baquiry at Home. We think that the wives of the small farmers It was necessary to pass an abstract rosclation in the country districts and that most women'
I then devise legislation to give it practical in the towns, however small their means,
effect. should have their own cheque books. Wo believe that the possession of a cheque book insulentos thrift and prevents extravagance and
leakage.
EL STIC EARTH.
and
The Hon. Tau Jiak Kim and the Hon.
T. B. Baker also supported the motion; the Iatter suggested stamping Conference bills of lading and legislating against documents re- ferring to deferred relates, Support for the motion was also fortheoming from the Hòa. Hugh Fort, the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Hon. W. Evans, the Attorney-General, and H.E. the Governor.
As a result of a series of experiments recently
The Hon. C. W. Darbishire; who was carried out by Professor Milne, the pioneer of
mude modara seismology, it is now known that twice
an able speech in defence of the Conference, each day at high tide the baillings along ep the only opponent of the motion. posite sides of tidal basins salute each other.
The experiments were carried out at Bidston consisting mainly of figures showing how trade Observatory, near Liverpool, one and a balf has increased under the Conference regime. miles from the sea, with a modified farm of The secret rebate was really only another form seismograph designed to record tidal effects and of extra price thas the small shipper had to pay. the more minute movements which other over the big shipper for room ander falt seismographs would not or not often record. freights. It was impossible for the Govern- The instrument recorded photographically, a tilt ment to legislate against deferred rebates, on the piller supporting it causing a definito The secret rotate was a very small thing indeed, amounting only to a quarter per cont, of the deflection on the film.
value of cargo c i fat Conference ports or one.” sixteenth of Petang in exchange.
"Dr. Galloway's motion was carried without a division, Mr. Darbishire boing the only dis sention.
From the very first the instrument gave very clear and definite records of one strauge effect of the tides. Twice a day the recording needle snug in one direction, showing that the steep ness of the billside on which it rested was
increasing.
GERMANY AND CHINA.
1372, and retired with the rank of coromander circles in Munich society, and it is believed that or bigbest pressure is shown over the Sea Amount of this ohango was not very great, al-Jat Shanghai tolographs that the British Eopre-
ngent
The
The correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung
of the town in the name of King Edward He sentative there has issued orders for the police continues This means independent English interference with an international constitution, and an attempt to withdraw the most important portion of the Municipal Administration, the police, from the jurisdiction of the Consular and to subject it exclusively to English juris upon them and contracted during the night. diction stable, English valleys opened when the sun fell Court, in which Germany is also represented.
COMMANDER M. SQUIRE, L.N.
Sosial circles at Munich have been shocked Commander Mountjoy Squire, who died recently at Bittura Park, Southampton, was the by the arrest of the Counters Frederich von subject of an inquest which was opened on Mar. Schonborn-Buckheim (born Princess Sephia 25th, it being supposed that he had akon Cantaonzene) on suspicion of complicity in
swindles perpetrated in Austria and Switzerland. the Bonias,
At high tide the bod of the Irish Sea became depressed from an increased load, and the effect Though the countess has been living in the accidentally an overdose of landanam.
He was 53 years of age and joined the Royal
most modest style she has had access to the best over the Yangtse valley, and pressure is low also of this was to pall the shores, together. The cadat in 186, became a liontenant in Nay as a
From
1879 to 1883 he served as she may be a victims of a case of mistaken iden in 1889. lieutenant-instructor to the Lavorpool Brigade tity. The Vienna-police sent word that the of Japan of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers.
a chorus girl, who, it is thought, He person wanted then became managing
of the may have made unwarranted use of the countess's coaling station on Ferim Island, in the Red namo.
The countess's husband is a member of the Sen, a post which he held till 1985.
aavistant Bohemian branch of the great Schouborn following year he was
terintendent of the Mercando Marine family, which was founded in the thirteenth Bureau under the Japanese Garoznmont, and contary. The heads of it were barons, and later on his retirement in 1891 received the Order of counts of the Holy Roman Empire. The the Rising San. From 1992 to 1825 he served countess eomas of the yet more ancient Russian Hongkong & Neighbourhood E. winds, fresh; He also showed that apparently the whole of the in the Chinese naval service imder the late family of Cantarazene, which is of Braantine Admiral Ting, and later on was again in the origin. Japanics service as Adviser to the Harbour. Board. The only war service he had in the Royal Navy was in the Lana in 1869, when he took part in an expedition up the Niger and was invalided on his return to the const
To the
Since her husband's financial affairs became involved a few years ago the countess has lived with her mother, the Frincess Cantacuzane, at Munich, where her ten-year-old son, Coant "Paul, attends an ordinary board school."
Moderate E. and 8.E. winds may be expected in the Formon Channel and fresh E. winds along the northern shores of the China Sea
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.62 inches.
The forest for the 24 hours ending at noen to-day is as follows
Formoss Channel...
moderate...
though much greater than might have been expected As Bidston the amount of deflection was about equal to one inch in sixteen miles.
In thus securing a measurement of the deles tion caused by
Milne has the tides succeeded where others have failed. Many years apparently
he showed that our ordinary,
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