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extension of the agreement for another The coxswain of the steam launch Sybil, TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
three years on the understanding that at the expiry of this second period the position will be reviewed in the light of the statistics which it is hoped will then have been obtained. At the Con- farance on the Opium Question held at Shanghai it was officially admitted that China could supply no satisfactory statie-
& CO. tical proof of what had been accomplished,
ESTABLISHED A.D, 184).
and we are melined to think that the same admission will have to be made again in 1913 if proof is then, demanded from the Chinese-Government. Towards the end of last year it was suggested by Sir Foun JORDAN that two members of the Indian Bervice should be appointed to make a tour of investigation in the opitia growing CHAMPAGNE districts of China and report upon the
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subject. That inquiry has now been foot under the competent direction of Sir ALEXANDER HOSIE, whose extensive travels in China has given him an acquaintance, with the country which peculiarly fits him for the task. It is on the results of this inquiry that the Indian Government must perforce chiefly
rely, though we think it will be generally agreed that the accounts which have been fortheo wing from travellers in all parts of the Empire during the past three your preclude the entertainment of any doubt regarding China's claim that she has
reduced her cultivation by throo-tonths. It seems a modest computation, for we have been accustomed to statements by Chinese officials that the cultivation of opium has been "practically suppressed" Possibly the Chinese Government, not being in a position to furnish reliable statistics, con- sidored that it could justly claim to have reduced native production at least to an extent corresponding to the proportion
by which the export of opium from India
has been
reduced. It is interesting
which is used by the health officer of the port at the Magistracy on Saturday: fined #5 for having failed to exhibita light at 430 in the morning
For the purpose of laying out the area in terraces for future intermente su order is to de male on January 29th, 1911, by the Governor, directing the removal of all graves in Section A of the Ms Tan Wal cemetery.
Amended regulations made by the Offer Administering the Government-in-Council by which bensine is included in case oil rules, while the conditions of a licence to store benzine are also set out in detail, are published in the Gazette..
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NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES
DISPUTE.
London, August 12th. It is reported from The Hague that the arguments in the arbitration At the Magistracy on Saturday a ̧ Chinoss was charged with having on the 30th December
proceedings concerning the Anglo- last falsely represented himself as having a share American Newfoundland fisheries dia. in two houses in Wauchsi, on the strength of puts, which have been in progress lions journed for a week. The bear since June 6th, have concluded, and that judgment is expected on Septem-, ber 1st.
was a
The Marine Magistrate-(Hon. Commander: Basil Taylor, E.N.) on Saturday heard the com. plaiut of the master of the an. Cesis against Timothy Murphy and George Robertson, two seamen, for deserting from the ship on Thurs day. The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to thres works' hard labour.
A sequel to the explosion of dynamite in Kobe Harbour last April is a suit brought by the Kobo Gas Company against Messrs. C. Nickel & Co., Ltd., Kobe, claiming from the latter the sum of Y13,697.38, compensation for damage in which plaintiffs ware involved as a result of the explosion. The suit is now occupying the Kobe
Court.
The Governor of Hunan has reported to the Throne that, in consequence of to Changsha
riote, the people are brought to a destituta paise; and unless a large fund be raised to initiate some industry to provids work as a measure_of_relief, trouble cannot be averiad. The Ministry of Finance has directed that the indemnity of Tis, 880,000 shall be borrowed from the banks, but repaid by the Hunan province, without respon
siblity to the Ministry.
A week ago au N.Y.K. steamor brought from Vladivostok to Kobe ninetoon horses and thirty
REFORMS IN PERSIA..
LONDON, August 12th. Reuter's correspondent at Teheran telegraphs that the Cabinet is
pro- posing the employment of foreign advisers, and suggests that Frenchmen should be attached to the Department of the Interior, Italians to the Gend- armerie and Egyptians to the Depart- ment of Justice.
THE BRITISH MILITARY SENSATION.
LONDON, August 13th.. Lieutenant Sutor, R.G.A., who was arrested for publishing a pamphlet entitled "Army System, or why we muddle through millions during peace," has been released from close
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THE SERIOUS FLOODS AT TOKYO.
CITY THREATENED WITH FAMINE,
TOKTO, August 14th. A quarter of Tokyo has been devastated by floods and the city is now threatened with famine.
prevailed, and this has immeasurably Throughout Saturday a rainstorm increased the suffering of the people.
An insufficiency of boats renders aid most difficult, and the starving people ure now seeking refuge on the roofs of temples.
To-day the waters have increased, and spinning and other mills have been severely damaged.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES. AT PEKING
COMPANY REPORT.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.
The Report and Balance Shoot of this Company for half-year January 1st-June 30th 1910, is as follows:-
Gentlemen,-The directors beg to submit Report and Balance Shoot for the half-year ended 30th June, 1910.
After paying expenses, interest, Crown ront, insurance, legal ex- penses, directors and auditors" fees, and all charges, there zomains a net profit for the "half-year's wanting of . ĐỂ TH added to which is the sum brought
forward from last account...
-9-16,174,14
132,765.92
Leaving available the sum of 8148,940.00 During the air months we comploted 13
vessels consisting of steam launches, motor bests and lightors, also sovorel marize bollers and a
large amount of forgings and castings. Pres ently under construction we have 2 steamers, 4 tonn launches, 2 motor boats, 15 railway carriages, also a large number of marine boilers, four of which are for the s.8, Heungchan.
Berrico launch K13 has been sold at a profit. able figure.
The work on No. 1 Dock Extension has pro- seeded rapidly, all excavation being practically finished. The Dock'a dimensions are now suf- ficient to accomodate the largest ships visiting Hongkong.
It will be notiood that the main of $221,000 hitherto standing at the ere lit of No. 1 Dook Extension Account, has been transferred to PEEING, August 14th. reserve, this being possible by the Company Heu Shih Chang, President of the having paid all expensos against the extension Yuchuanpu (Board of Communica-out of rerantie. tions) has been granted five days' leave.
This is believed to presage his re- tirement in order to avoid an awkward situation due to the increasing op- position of the gentry with regard to the Hukuang railway loan.
Shang Kung Pao bas arrived from Shanghai, apparently to resume the Vice-Presidency from which be was suspended in 1908 and probably to
The pamphlet, which is selling succeed Hsu Shih Chang.
to learn from Mr. Mourier's state-no dogs, to be used in the South Polar Ex-
pedition, under Commander Boott Mr. Bruco, | ment in Parliament that, contrary to until recently Chief Over on board the arrest. many published statements on the subject, | P. & D. Oriental, and Mr. Mears, who has boan. China has not suggested any reduction of member of several expeditions into the interior the period of ten years which she originally proposed for the extinction of the trade. Mr. MONTAGE's remarks on this point clearly announce that the Indian Gov ernment would be extremely reluctant
of China, are also in Kobs en route to Now freely, is in great demand.
A.S. WATSON & CO.. to entertain any proposal for the short ening of the period, because any alteration, LIMITED,
ho explained, would involve serious admi- nistrative and financial considerations, and possibly put an intolerable strain upon tlie temper of the Indian taxpayers and cultiva tors of poppy and upon relations with Native States. Though little is beard on the subject, woimagine that the Chinese Government also is finding that over-hasty action involves in
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Zealand to join Commander Boott, The horses and dogs (which are being looked after by three Russians) are to be taken to Australia by the N.D.L. steamer Prins Woldemar, now in port.
AVIATION RECORD.
LONDON, August 13th.
Mr. Drexel attained an altitude of
Baron Shigeno Kiyotake, s young man of 23, has just left Kobe for France for the study of 6,750 feet at the Lanark Aviation aviation, for which purpose he is sacridxing all his property. This gentleman is the eldest son Meeting. This is an official world's of the late Lieutenant-General Baron Shigeno, record. and has taken great interest in the study of balloons and sirships from childhood. He st first decided to devote his life to military service, and entered the Junior Military College, but was forced to give up his ambition through fil health. In 1906 he entered the Tokyo Imperial Academy of Music and completed the wholo course last year. He is said to have stadied
for publication sut as evidence of the opuim-growing provinces "administra-music in order to be able to earn his own living
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DEATH OF AN AMERICAN PHILANTHROPIST.
[It will be noticed below that a telegram to our Chinese contemporary mentions & rumour that Hau Shih Chang is to be appointed Viceroy of Canton]
[FEOM THE "CHUNG NGDI BAH PO."]
IMPERIAL CHINESE 7
CUSTOMS.
PEKING, August 14th. The Grand Council proposes-to send Liang Tuu Yen, late president of the Board of Foreign Affairs, abroad to discuss with foreign Powers the question of increasing the Customs duties.
LONDON, August 13th. The New York philanthropist, Mr. Robert Treat Paine, who was the OPIUM president of the American Peace Society, is dead.
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CONFERENCE AT THE
H GUE.
HENRY KESWrcx, Chairman. Hongkong, 9th Augast, 1910.
BALANCE SHEET: 30TH JUNE, 1910.
"LIAMILITIES.
Capital 50,000 shares of $50 each 8
fully paid up. Reserve fund
Marine insuranes. account. Sundry creditors Balance
of
profit
2,500,000.00 221,000.00 68,214,99
... 2,061,154.11
brought forward from last account... 8132,765,92 Profit for the half-year onding 30th June, 1910...
Value
16,174 14
148,940.06
$5,019,309.16
ASSETS.
of. Kowloon, Cosmopolitan and Aberdeen Docks, buildings and plant, (including floating plant as por lust statement Amount since paid on secount of additions to plant
..
$3,507,559,89
3,656,64
$159,174.16
No. 1. Dock extension account. Amount paid as per last
statement Amount expended dur
ing six months-1st January to 30th June, 1910
www
$3,511,226.53
65,965.85 ***
Amount expended on work in pro- Bunday debtors
225,137.01 257,380.68
gress, as at 30th June, 1910, Issa instalments received on account 141,413.22 Material in stock at book value 881,151,72
B
85,019,309.16
REVENUE ACCOUNT: 30rx JUNE, 1910. To interest
$56,764,20
To Crown rent...
To rates and taxes
14:347.89
4.073.06
To insurance To proft....
5,351,21
To directors and auditors' fees
8,750.00
16,174.14
$105,450,49
THE
VICEROYALTY OF
CANTON,
By not earning
toe already appeared in other papers all be of immediate suppression stopped to contem- perfect and practical airship. A younger
PERING, August 14th. Plata. What purpose the further Coafor
Tong Kwok On, will be appointed ence at The Hague in November is intended
Messrs. Ellis & Ellis of Hongkong in their BRITISH CRUIS ERSTRANDED, to serve, we do not know, but the main con- latest weekly Rubber Bhara Circular stato:
Chinese representative at the forth. The continued heary fall in the price of the raw sideration which prompted the proposal sɔema
LONDON, August 13th. coming Opium Conference at The to have been the shortening of the period material, quoted at 8/9 per ib. last week, to 7/9 The British cruiser "Duke of Hague, for the extinction of the trade in opium. for Para and 6/9 for Plantation Rubber on 10th Edinburgh" stranded during fog on a HONGKONG OFFICE: 101, DHE VEUT ROAD To this the British Government is clearly share market and quotations dropped i ledge off Stoat Hermes ou the Isle of
instant, absolutely paralysed business in the opposed, and the Under Becretary of State for India has publicly intimated that the sympathy. The farther fall in prices was Wight."
arrested yesterday when inquiries from London Government cannot agree to a discussion for sterling stocks sent quotations up several Her position is considered dan- of our diplomatic relations with Chin
nts from the lowest rates touched earlier in If points
the week. The rise of Para rabber-to the Conference takes place its deliberations. to-day further helped to stiffon sterling (The Duke of Edinburgh is an armoured
B/10 per gerous, are therefore likely to be concerned chiefly decidedly firmer tone.
shares, and the market closes with &orniser of 13,550 tons and possessing a speed of with the exportation of morphia and cocaine week, however, was restricted to the low-priced the Black Prince.
Business during the 23 knots. The only other ship of this class i to China subject on which the British stocks, several transactions having taken place Government seems desirous of learning the Singa
at current quotations. The downward slide of Singapore-dollar stocks continues unchecked and, generally speaking, they have reached o leret so as to booone temptingly profitable in- the companies already producing rabber, bat vestments. The remark applies, of course, to not to those that have only recently emerged from the embryonic stage.
HONGKONG, Avover 15rs, 1910.
Those who have closely followed the history of the negotiations with regard to the gradual diminution of the import of India opium into China will recollect that an undertaking was given by the Indian Gov ernment for the reduction of the export of opium to China by one-tenth part every year, starting in 1908. In view of the doubt which then prevailed China to respecting the ability of implement the promises she made to un- nually reduce the cultivation of native- grown opium, it was provided in the un- dertaking" which the British Government gave to China that after
three years
the position should be reviewed, and
if it were found that there had been no corresponding reduction, in the production of native-grown, opium, it would then be
views of the Powers concerned.
Recent investigation disclose that there are to Britiah, eighteen Amaries and seven Chir physicians practising in Korea.
H.M.S; Astræa arrived in port on Saturday. from the North. She is flying her paying-off pennant.
The name of Mr. Bartel Skon, has been added
Colony.
CATS AND PLAGUE PREVENTION.
PROPOSED "GĦANT IN AID" IN KOHE.
Dr..
DEATH OF BARL SPENCER.
LONDON, August 13th.
PEKING, August 14th. It is reported that Hsu Shih Chang, President of the Board of Com- munications, will be appointed Viceroy of Canton on the arrival at Peking of Sheng Kung Fo, who is to succeed Hou Shih Chang as Acting President, CHINESE STUDENTS FOR AMERICA.
PEKING, August 14th. The latest batch of students selected
. Earl Spencer is dead. [Earl Spencer, who was born in 1835, was Groom-in-Stole to the Prince Consort from 1859 to 1861, and subsequently to the Prince of Wales, He was Viceroy of Ireland two occasions, the first being from 1869 to 1874, and the second from 1882 to 1885. He successively to be placed in colleges A me filled the offices of President of Council and
It will be remembered, says the Japan Chronicle, to the register of chemists and druggists in the that on the occasion of the visit to Japan of the First Lord of Admiralty, while he was also the rica will leave Hankow on the 16th
late
Koch, the eminent bacteriologist was keeper of the Privy Seal of the Duke of instant asked his opinion as to the best means to be Cornwall and was Chancellor of Victoris
the prevention of piagus. Dr. Koch Univerity:] Ples for the keeping of cats as an exooliant | means of destroying rats. At a meeting on Wednesday (3rd instant) of
Kobe Municipal Council a schame was adopted for encouraging the citizens of Kobe to keep eats in their houses
The seven men suspected of being. Colowan pirates again appeared before Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy on Saturday and were. remanded.
8. M. 8. “ LEIPZIG."
Great interest, saya the N.-G. Daily News, was for the destruction of rats. This salieme, toge taken in the arrival of the German third-class
meeting of the Municipal Assembly today, almost opposite the Castors House
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
$105,460.49
$105,460.49
A KOREAN GOLD-MINE,-
A long Korean gold mining contract has recently been concluded and papers signed, says being known as the Chikan Mining Com the Japan Advertiser, the property in question This concession was owrod in equal propos na by Japanese and Ameriosos, the Japaume in. teroste being represented by Baron Shibusawe and Mr. Sofobiro Asano, President of the Toyo Kiser Kaisha, while the American intereste were represented Metars. J. P. Henry sad.
by A. W. Taylor, under the name of the Korean Exploration Company. The property is an extensive one and well-known to be a good one, but has lacked propor development owing to B series of misfortunes. Mr. W, P. Anderson, of Cincinnati, 000 of the large stockholders in the Korean Exploration Company, who
recently porty, has undertaken to for a new
a ospital of 2,000,000
y
waa
in Kores and Jap
Japan investigating the pro- yon, which
with
a
a
tion
Will Orn
1 controlling interest in the Korean Explora Company, and which by additional capital will develop the Chikisa property on a large scale. The
will be managed company Americans.
The orders of the day at to-morrow's meeting of the Hongkong Banitary Board include tion of the requirements of Bootion 188 of the
Reply from Government relative to a modifica
open to the British Government to consider Saturday at the Magistracy fined $10 for havingther with other measures, is to be considered at ruisar Leipzig, when she took up her mosringe Public Health and Bulidings Ordinance, 1903, machinery. Sufficient work has already been
whether any further reduction in the export of opium from India should be made. The time has now arrived for the considera
The owner of the steam launch Bailey was on
failed to exhibit the licence in a conspinous part of the cabin.
4
It
estimated at 10,560, and the total amount of
Saturday The
of the same elses of
the
plant, to instal a modern gold mining dredge
It is proposed to construct an electric power
more rapidly by the installation of additional the latest design, and also to develop the quartz
the 5th instant.
it is proposed to grant a sum not exceed morning, the 6th inst, as she is one of the fastest, in respect of the proposed extension of the Tang done in the past to warrant the assertion that
not
the fastest vessel, seen up the tiver.
Wah Hospital.!
the property has passed beyond the experimental ing 50 sen for each eat which has increased.
stage. The concession comprises an area of of twenty-three knots.
Report of the Select Committee appointed to 250 square miles, fifty miles south of Seoul. A. Peking telegram says that, since his returntimated that the scheme will involte an other nations, this is high, and indigne investigate the Proposals for the Departmental
oz. in weight since its birth. It to Zeipsig ins
Compared with tion of, this matter, and we note that into Peking from Europe, Prince Tsai Tac hasual expenditure of Y5.380. The number of wine that is now being sttached to speed. Her Disposal of Refuse for 1911,"
The Seoul-Fa through the property. The passos diagonally The placer ores is very giving in the House of Commons a fortnight urged the removal of the queno There is cats in Kobe entitled to the grant so far is displacement
is 3,200
tans, and her draught is
large and at Minuto by the Head of the Sanitary Depart their crade manner under the tributo system. however, much opposition to the suggestion.
at present 2
2600
natives are working in ago an outline of the Indian Budget the
to be granted on their account is est only other important factor in the ment relative to dust and water carts. An American visitor was summoned on Saturated, at 15,280, in addition to which there is modera vessel, for she was laid down in 1906
The ground is ideal for dredging, being on of iman-of-war. Sha E reilly Under Secretary of State aude reference,
Minute by the Head of the Sanitary Depart the average eighteen feet in depth, sand. day by an Indian watchman at the Hongkong an item of 100 for carrying the scheme into and launched in the following year, het cost ment relative to additional accommodation for bedrock and on boulders. One thousand neres Hotel for assalt. His Worship did not believe operation. The vote of this amount will be
£254,500. Some comparisons may be poultry in the Central Market. 19 a supplement to the municipal expon- boing 5254,500. Some comparison dy he
have been already drilled and show an
of 31 that she bad reduced her production by the story told by the complainant and dismissed diture for this year, and it is proposed to draw-araiset, 19ft, with a speed of but 19.75 Liont-Col Sir J, Fayrer, Barby relative to four of which under the old company are bein
Sverage Famphlets by the Medical Officer of Health, yard. Eighty quartz lodges have been located, of gold per cubio has 僇 displacement of 4,360 tons, and s the money from the sarples of revenue for Inst draught
malaris and its prevention. knots. The Flora, s sister ship to the Attra
developed and producing preftably on a small imposed on each deg in Kabe, and as many dogs kote. In punt of speed the Leipzig is ex It may be noted that an sannst tax of Y2 is alighus diminished spoed, viz, 19.5
Correspondance relative to the linewashing scale, the rock averaging better than 30 yen per contract. other vermin, it would som that dog owners H. M. B. Ang Alfred, 25.46 knots, but these
now milis will be installed at Yangdal, seren ton in free gold, besides concentrates averaging are quite as useful as eats in catching rats and coded by H. M.B. Minotaur, 23.01 knots, and
been shipped-to Tacoma for treatment. "The 400 yon per too. This product in the past has will have a grievance against the preference vessels have not ventured up river. given to cat-owners.
miles from the present camp.
to this question. Chian, he said, claimed
"more than three-tenths. There is no the ease. absolute proof," Mr. MONTAGU added,
His Excellency the Officer Administering the but there is no reason to doubt it"; Government-in-Council has been pleased to and therefore the Indian Government, direct that a book or books, to be entitled while waiting the production of the Copyright-Register, shall be kept by the
atistical proofs, has offered China an Eegistrar-General in his offico.
asked
уваг.
Health and Bondings Ordinances, 1903-1909, for ment against persons for breaches of the Public Tást of legal proceedings taken by the Depart
the month of July, 1910
sen