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COLEMAN'S
THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS - AND THE SHIPPING RING)"
THE CASE FOR THE CONFERENCE.
We have slready reproduced the spoon delivered by H.E. Bir John Anderson, Governor of the Straits Settlements, on the second read ng of the "Freight and Steamuhips Bill," which was passed by the Legislative Council by 11 rates to 1. No little interest is folt in the sab jeet in Hongkong, and, in compliance with wishes arpremed to us, we reproduce; halow from the Straits Times the lengthy speech delivered on the second reading by the Hon. Me Darbi-
a tax on the producer. Does anyone suppose for a minute that in the old days the shipowner did no reckon on the commission he would have to pay before he agreed to his charter money take the truhls to esposa, but amit is typical of
It is really too elementary, a blunden for me be the nanny absurdities wich bass confined to conference, it is well that I should do so. the noisy and 13-informed clamour against the
TANJONG PÅGAR FIGURES.
LEGISLATION NOT CALLED FOR, Sir, I think I have said enough to show that the preamble of this bill is not proved in any way. But even if it was, where is your authority disatie
NAPIER JOHNSTONES
for bringing in bil of this most xapal, and SQUARE BOTTLE” strelic nature? A great has boen
Comm
secret rebate
which says that if the so-called sec (I doubt if
if ur rebate of the kind has publicity in the kluter
Pho Inadvisability of wo lation is pointed out in Callegor
323, para where the amongst other things to the enforcement
effect
universality and
I think I have dealt at sufficient length with the speech of the hon. member to show that there was nothing in it to justify the preamble of the bill now before us, sud, I pear to the commissioners dimpproved of legislation to give posch of the hon, sud learned member fare of uniform are hippers. Apart from this which might creats the impression that our polated out, admitted Northern Settlement and the only remark in it
our altogether, your Excellenty has, at have trade was not flourishing was when he alluded
at reasonableness of such
a preference. Can any ahire in defence of the Shipping Conference to the stagnation of trade at member point to any pamgraph in the
Tanjong
hon.. As usual, not a fact or report which recommends legislation to deal on this question of shipping conferences on gure to sipport this monstrous statement with unfair or too high rates or with deferred April 11, I took as my text certain points raised hays gems into the records of Tanjong Pagar rebates? Even the minority (p. 114) report in the petition presented to the unofficial mem-centerence for nd if twelve years since the ggests the, appointment
for the twelve years before the conference, the bors and I showed, I take it conclusively, as my facts and figures have never been ofther in the conference and this is what I find so chamber or out of it disputed, the men and Beme who signed that petition did so in complete ignorance of the real condition of the trade at As the hon. Attorney-General
Mr. DABBISHIELaid-Bir-In the debate
has colony a to bags this bill on the motion
which was carried on April 11, I cannot do
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which took place on that day. The hon. mem- ber who introduced the motion in my opinion put forward, no oridence at all, evidence, in support of his
that ship. ping conlerenons had been injurious to the interests of the colong. He opened his speeck with a more or less accurate account of the reasons for the necessity of the conference and for the necessity of the active co-operation of some of the merchants here. He then referred to the report of the sub-committee of the Cham ber of Commerse in 1907, which was based upon, and contained a
I a glaringly misleading record of the progress of our export trade. Follows, said the hon. member, council paper 27 of 1905 a Fon Registrar of
of Bay
1897
Average 12 years pont-confaronco" Increase to 1800 Indranse sites, 1897%.
VCARDO IN WARD.
Average 12 years ante-nonference
1807... Average 12 years post-conference Increase to 1997 Increase xines 1887
Tous. 2,342,597 ... 8,057 181 ...1,204,435
444 #63 1,147,50 30%
CABGO OUT. Average 18 years before conforanco ...
1897.*** Average 12 years efïde conference ... Increase up to 1807. Dearesad since 1897...
Tons. 232,482
0,156 623 821
193 874 86% 137,665 362
Torn.
393,650 518,594 081,874, 119,876 30X 167,840 89% Tone
338,928
426 420 483,158
157,548 40-y 33,21 4%
you to
of
다.
Board of
Trade court of enquiry if there is any against the rate of Pennine grievance freight imposed. In t
In the majority report, which most of the business men have signed, I refor paras 189, 295, 296, 297, 312, 315 and 332 and many others where legislation is most em phatically disapproved of... I would particularly refer you to pars 315 (e). This is_* very pertinent pars, for I am as certain as I
I am of anything that one result of the
operation of this bill would be the forcing of the con- ferente liners more and more to Macassar and other Dutch parts. They are in ference, there quite outside of your control, and if they choose to tap the trade which now comes here for transhipment (which is tenfold in volume anything that our producers
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ean produce), nearer the fountain head, it would LANE CRAWFORD & CO.,
be imperative that the Straite merchant firme ahoold establish branches in Datoh porta in order to keep a hold on their eastern produce business, just as eluce the conference began to Bater properly for Paning several firma hara found it necessary to open branchas to deal with
Importa and Exporte. Of the inconsistenties, maintained their pal delivering have or thy the boneque Thapin barnensed in the volume of
narow mindeduces and absolute lack of
shown increased progress of 10 per cent. Cargo
upon our
evidence of commercial understanding in this out has fallen off, and is 4 per cent, less and the ring trade, tranahipment business.
sion
if
As
ably more than before the conference. than in the conference year, though consider
this we zoed have no concern, 'as A regards. This reference to our export statistics will show simply means that the only trade which is aide to do so has left Taujeng Fager for cheap er and sasier handling in the roads and I am not surprised. Bear in mind that this progress has been made in the face of conditions at Tan-
loss to Tanjong Pagar is too awful to contemplate.
STAGGERED BY THE PROSPECT!" F. M. 8. producers, to overlook the fact that Your Excellency seems, in the interests of
Singapore is omontially an entrépot port not any means dependent apon or unsoessarily the by port of the future for the F.M. S. Let us clear our minds of this confusion before we commit the blunder of making this law and find out for
our
i from ALL WINE MERCHANTH. (45
SHIPPING IN PORT.
STEAMERS.
ANAMBA, British str., 1,159, C. Sangster, 5th BORNEO, German str. 1,344, 8. Sembill, 13th Sept-Amoy 4th Sept., Cam Oil-Asiatic Petroleum Ltd,
Sept.-Sandakan 8th September, Timber Melchera & Co.
BUJUN MABU, Japanese str., 1,300, Y.-Fassno, 11th Sept.-Shanghai and Swatow. 10th Sept, General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
paper it is unnecessary for me to tell, but alla- I must make to statement F., in which Mr. Stuart attempted to show that the nott Lone of Singapore export trade in ten yeste since the onference began was 5,746,000 pionl I wonder
the hon. member who brought this papor forward as proof of the urgent need of Legislation to relieve our throttled trade over took the trouble to add ap the totals of the two periods ante and post conference.
ace. If he had one so he would have found that in every item ggar, the most aprangly inadequate to ourselves what our position will be if we drive CHENAN, British str., 1,350, Lloyd Jones, 11th except
pepper and
à gambier, there were increased in shipments during the conference régie crumbs our
régime over gutta jelutong, oilcake, pineapples altogether, with remark that they were new business or shown in values only. Can you conceive
ridiculous anything mors or unreasonable
Our exports of pines alone in the
the post-conference period exceeded the ante- conference
ronce period on his own aboring by 20 million dollars, and the reduction in pepper and
of
gambier production is no doubt due to the
every day sud-have-done-eo for the last few years owing to the shortsighted and unintelligible refusal of Government to relieve the pressure at fugal of Cover by allowing private enterprise temporarily to conduct coaling operations in the roads, Stagnation at Tanjong Pagar Lying Fonnng the hon. and learnal member cannot perhaps be expected to check such state mente probably circulated by ignorant or blind. if our legislation is to be based on such state ly prejudiced persons, but it is a serious matter
ments.
THE BÀNOUR PETITION.
It
content with the for crame Which mir goud friends and neighboara in the F. M. S. will throw nut to me after satiating Fort Swet. terbum and Doop Water Point. The
prospect staggers me. Consider what this body is is the Legislative Council of the colour of the Straits Bottlements responsible for the interests of the colony, not the Federal Council of the F. M. S. protecting the interests of the producers there. With all my soul I protest
against this monstrous unbusiness-like and freak legislation. How can Government possib ly know what are and what are not unduly
bigh Are merchants to leave their
September-Shanghai 8th Sept., General CEYLON MARU, Japanese str., 3,142, F. L.
Balterfeld & Swire.
Pyne, 13th September Singapore 7th Supt., General-Nippon Tusen Kaisha. CHIYUEN, Chinese str., 1,177, C. Stewart, 12th September-Shanghai 9th Sept., General- C. M. B. N. Co.
CHOWE
German str., 1.055, Schmitz, 8th Bangkok 31st August, Rice- CaoWTA1, 1,134, Horjenga, 11th
& Swire,
September-Bangkok 5th Sept., Rice- Butterfeld & Swira.
withdrawal of capital and inbour from their development for transfer to pines. The true of the case are, it, instead of juggling with figures and shuffling with lustres, the Le speech on April 11, he was much more frank bargaining in this matter in the hands of CORBIE. British xtr.. 3,055, J. Fallaa, 7th Sept.
the tatals
Passing on to the hon. Attorney-General's be confessed to having no familiarity with de tails of shipping rates or questions of freight.
those who have presented the colony with
Aangepons lat Sopt., Kerosene Oil- Tanjong Pagar sliares at $750 and with the EMPRESS OF INDIA, British str., 5,940, S.
Petrolum & Co.
He said that the importance of the matter to dollar at 2/4 Heaven
Heaven forbid! I cannot
had
of the two periods are compared, that there is an inereme in the second over the first ten years of 6,500,000 pionis and over and above that there are twenty million dollars worth of pines. But the the colony was apparent, assuming and in
believe that the bill is intended to become law, crowning triumph of all in the statement is
I will quote an the petition all the signatories to pepper, one of the few gains conceded by Mr. an intelligent appreciation of the position.attac
utterancing its rejection
made
the
which very near the spot on Stuart. Note how this gain is arrived at:-I leave you to jud, as to that after long and always remain a
That Singapore will years ago
afrge I have said, and remark that of all the trade or industry will be established to check its - what
port, and that no British export firms in this port only two signed
only patition
1887-91
1410 thousand picals:
-1892-6
1897-01 1902-6
1669- b" gain 259,000 1000 thousand picul's 1380 gain 383,000
the
I
Robinson, 8th Sept.-Vancouver, B.C.,
17th
August, Mails and General-Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
FAUBANG, British str., 1,410, H. Malkin, 8th Bept-Cheriton and Java 29th August, Sagar-Jardine, Matheson & Öo.
I only five bank savistantene bank out of eight, future rise and prosperity I can have no doubt" / FOOKBANG. British str., 1,987, T. A. Mitchell,
out of 57 signed it, and The words of Sir Stamford Raffles. -net gain 121,000. Here, apparently, the con- thoss, curiously enough, all in the Hongkong ference has, according to Mr. Stuart, done some busk. If you are basing this bill on the petitioa LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
2 are working in the interests of a number of
The R.M.S.P. Co.'s str. Flintshire left been exceeded by the expansion since. Add up the two five years' periods before and after, and you opinions of the bulk of the merchants whose Singapore for Hongkong on the 11th instant, will find that before the conference there were capital it is that is developing our trade. The and may be expected here on or about the 17th shipped 3,079,000 picul and after it 2,380,000 hon. Attorney-General's next remark of any instant. arodnood total shipment of 699,000-picals or importance was that "the facta to show 42,000..tous! On Mr. Stuart's scale
if there
there that have
rates any conanltation led without left Singapore. on the 14th instant morning,
been had been a total failure in creps and
As uns, the after the mots show nothing of the kind. Immediately instant. during the first five years
good, the expansion before the conferenco has foreign firma absolutely ignoring the
if business had actually stopped, I could show a gain of over one million tons due to the conferenca oven though total shipments had fallen off by more than that tonnage in the last of the two ten-years' periods. On the same basis imports of the United Kingdom could be shown to have fallen oft by 90 million pounds in the periods comprised in the report.
BIE A YOUNG MISLED.
A veritable reductio ad absurdum. Then
the hon. member went on to refer to the Colonial Secretary's report of 1907, which, I submit, would never bare carried the weight
after the formation of the conference the average rate certainly did rise for the first two or three years, but we are now working on an average rate per scale ton 20 per cent. 1-wer than in 1500. That is another misleading assertion nailed to the counter.
The Apaar str. Gregory Apear from Caleatta and may be expected horo on or about the 20th
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The speech of the bon, member representing the Chamber of Commerce was worthy of the middle ages, of the days of toll gates, of a South American republic or comic opera, and contained HE Steamshij no argument worth answering.
THE GOVERNOR IN ERROR.
8th Sept.-Kobe vía Muji 3rd September, General-Jardine, Mistheson & Co.
German
GERMANIA,
str., 1.713, H. Frandsen, 2nd Sept.-Hongsy and Haihow lat. Sept., HAIGEING, British, str., 1,244, W. C. Pasemore,
Coal and Pige-Jebsen & Co. 13th September-Swatow 12th September, Generalas, Lapraik & Co.
str., 1,222, H. Udden, KANG PING,
5th September-Chinking 30th August,
Gozeral-Taug Lee & Co. Коменом,
British str., 1,460, D. Martin, 27th August-Saigon 23rd General
Aug.
Ying Sang & Co.
| LAERTES, British str., 1,340, H. C, D Framp. ton, 11th Sept-Saigon 6th September, General-Wo Fat Bing.
LAISANO, British str., 2,225, E. J. Tudil, 12th- September-Singapore 6th Sept., General
Jardins, Matheson & Co. LENNOX, British str., 2;361, D. Roid, 1st Sept, -Keelong 30th Aug., General-DouwBLI & Co.
LOONGSANG, British str., 1,075, F. Wheeler, 12th September-Manila 9th Sept., Homp
it has done if the Colonial Secretary had assumed on most of the points raised a much | of. Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being Lex Matheson-&-Co...
30th
Gotman str., 1.238, Pilgrim, August-Swatow 29th Aug., Ballast
have referred to for whereas he was labguring that exports had largely increased, thereby Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Amerika Lini
لانس
tons.
"FRANQUEDAR” having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby Now, sir, in your remarks, your Excellenor informed that their Goods, with the arception- not been grossly misled by the erroneous or reasonable attitude than did the landed sad stored at their mak Into conclusions arrived at in the twe documents I official members. Your Excellency admitted the Hazardous and/or Extra Hazardous hate the delusion that in the thon ten years condemning your Colonial Secretary's and Wharf and der Point Colowns, whence Godown Company, Limited, of conference away car oxports had diminished your Registrar of Imports and Exports' reports. Ros
230,000, the true facts were that they had Your Excellency admitted that if it was simply delivery many ho obtainstted after the Goods by 230 inerested by 270,000 tons, an orror of half a a a question of certain large shippera gotting
the hon. member, preferential the Government would left the Godowns, all Goods remaining triamps, we have the public potition signed by certainly act be cailed upon to interfere, bocasse undelivered after the 1, and fat, de rosinjoel Europeans and all the races saling to be freed this is the recognised practice in the commercial to rent. from the evil effects of F skipping conferences." world everywhere. Your Excellency said that All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to Having failed to support by a fact or a figure the chief objection to the agreement was that it be left in the Godowns, where they will be their contention that their trade was being ham had the effect of maintaining rates at a point examined on the 17th inak, at 9.30 AM. pored and restrained, those petitioners, solemnly higher than a fair and adequate return for the put their good right hands to the statement that services rendered by the shipowner and declared *tbey themselves were suffering deeply from the that the trade of this place was absolutely at his
No Fire Insurance lus been affected. Loss of trade and consequent depreciation of pro- mercy..
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by to prove this Your perty, etc., ete" Foor little sufferers. Poor
proved Poor Excellency
the exact the Badersigned. Guthrie Ltd Poor Straits Trading Co., contrary.
& Co.,
referred to tin,
MELCHERS & Co., saying that Ltd, with their 60/- per ton profit on tin. Paor when the conference proposed to
...Agents. to raise the Banks who have increased their establishments froight on tin those interested in the metal. Hongkong, 10th September, 1910. 16 at doable the rate which was called for before immediately stopped the increase, through the
8. YARRA," the conference begun. Poor Ribeiro & Co., morchants of course. This is obvious, for it is who have been compelled to evacuate their pala of no passible interest to the shipowner whether tial promises in Battery Road to move
In endlessly to
You
their present shanty in the Square. Pcor Ho the tin was sold here or shipped to London for.
sale. The shipowner gets his freight in either
& Co. Poor Montague lisrris! All this, said event. The merchants prefer the chance of the hon. member, formet a " "veritable churns. of making a proft on tin by having bore and condemnation
should prefer to liken
shipping it to the more certain, thongh loss it to of those mechanical orchestras valuable, rebate on the increased freight which which one meets with in circuses worked by was proposed. And so it is in every article. steam, suction gas or hot air, and under the perfect control of one man. Which man ? Ah!
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Bea, 13th
Gorman str., $50, J. Peter-
Gonoral-Jobsen
MONOLIA, Aurerican str., 8,150, E. P. Kitt, Sept.-San Francisco 12th August,
M. BIS. Co. General P.
13th
OMURO)
9th
str., 1,479, 8. Takaki,
BU, Japan 3rd Sept., Conl
Bastan Kalsha.
PANAMA MARU, Japanese
13th Sept pe str. 3,756, K. Mato,
10th Sopt., General-
Osaka Bhogots Kaisha
OTING, British.BE
PAOTING,
E. L. Jones, 12th
September 6th Sept, General
China
Co. PETCHABURI, German str., 1,374, C. Gäsewich, 11th Sept. Bangkok 4th Sept., Rice, Meal and wood-Batterfield & Swire,
PITSANULOK, German str,, 1,264, D. Reimus, 11th Sept.-Bangkok 3rd Sept., Rice and Wood-Butterfeld
& Swirs. RYGJA. Norwegian str. 3,807, E. Meyer, 11th
Sept-Portland 11th August, Floor Order.
BEANG
ANG Ben, British str., 3,784, J. Travis, 12th Sept.-Rangoon via Straits porte 28th Aug, General-Seong Tai Hong.
111h
SeptBangkok via Swstow 10th Sept., Rice Aagaard, Thoresen & Co. TIENYAIN, British str. 1,227, E. Boyd, 3rd
September-Swator 2nd Sept, General Butterfield & Swire.
+
Dutch str., 3,061, Lap, 12th Sept. August, General Java Ching Japan Lija.
a tax on the shipowner, Both profits are, as a pet that the big solved in there who are intimation is received from it to be landed WHT, British str. 4227. A. Lacker, 4th.
dollars
trade.
YONSIGNEES of Cargo from London
B. 8.8. Cordovan and Dordogna from Bordeaux 24. "Troy Lallier" in connection with above Steamer, are hereby informed that their goods with the excepTHÖRDIS, Norwegian str. 1,091, J. Jorgensen, If merchants found that conference freights tion of Upium, Treasure and Valuables were really driving away trade they would be
being landed and stored at their risks As regards the preferential rebate the hon. the first to complain and got rates adjusted; into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Go- member made the remarkable statement that it for example, during the recent freight war from dowus of the Hongkong-Kowloon Wharf and differed altogether from the charterer's profit, Manils the rate on copra from the Straits was Godown Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whence delivery one was a fax on the producer and the other was reduced to 20/- por scalo ton equal to about 14/6 may be obtained immediately after landing. TILKWONG, Dutch
ion of 40 o. ft. Billed. Do hon. members fact, matter of
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unleer in the colony, and the millions of doll
and to think
Brans merchant
the Consignees exactly the same extent are a burden upon the
and before Noon, To-Day, requesting producer just as is any other profit made on the dependent upon the prosperity of the colony hers. distribution of produca
either
merchants, would hesitate, for one moment in brokers and bankers, or as is any Government whether they would rather sacrifice their trade duty or tax
ar or doubled rail frnight..
ht. What is or the paltry preference of a couple of shillings actually taken out of the
colony by the shipper ton on their freight, a preference which, by owner is in one case the gross freight less the
freight leas the the may they always enjoyed before the cent. deferred and the 5 per cent pre-conferenceoflency concluded with an app ferential rebate and the leading commision, and Your rolls and copra producers. Figures an appeal for in the other case the charter. money less commission on it. The preferential rebate, sa do not in any way support the contention that did the charterer's profit, remains in the hands they have suffered at the hands of the conference. of merchanta trading in the colony- and is to Nor have I heard of any petition having been exactly the same extent, if you like to call it so, presented by ther to this effect
Bula of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after the 19th inst., at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before
the 19th fast, 3 .. the 20th inst, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be emmined on
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P. THOMAS; Agent Hongkong, 13th September, 1910.
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September Shanghai 31st Aug., General -Batterffeld & Swiro.
Zarino, British str. 1,618, A. ÏTaser, 12th
Sept Manila 10th September; Hemp Skeyan, Tomes & Co.
SAILING VESSEL. ARROW, Britisk barque 2.971, McIvor, 20th May-Anjer 8th April, Kerosene ORI Standard Oil Ce
DZUMETAN, British 4-masted barque, 1,799, Swatt, 27th August-Menado 30th July, Ballast-Standard Oil Co.