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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912.
and thence by the natural caravan routes to various points in the Province and West China Tho expected change in the direction of these imports has so far not boon realised, and present indications are that the railway transportation charges over the line to Yunnanfu will have to be modified before any change can be reasonably ex-
A. S.
& CO., LTD.,
WATSONpected These rates, Mr. ANDERSON explains, are upon five classes of freight, and
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
Lre
We learn from the Colonial Secretary's TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS.
Office that Hongkong has been declared an infected port by the Government of Bengal
We are informed by the management that H.E. The Officer Administering the
Government will attend the performance of The Balkan Princess" by the Band- mann Opera Co, to-night. an Opera Co, to mit
A small fire took place at 22, Caine Road on Thursday night, owing to the overturn ing of a kerosene lamp. Fortunately no damage beyond the destruction of three pieces of clothing was caused..
assessed upon bases of five zones between tho sea-board at Haiphong and Tunnaufu. The rates are based upon con- siderations of comparative value and com- parative bulk of goods as well as weight, and in general follow similar classificationa Local rice importers will be interested to in France. To the rates a surtax is added, hear that rumour credits the Burma when exchange is below 2/- to the dollar, and Government with the intention of putting
(THROUGH REUTER ́Î AGENCY.]
THE COAL STRIKE.
LONDON, March 29th. The leaders of the Labour Purty have issued an appeal to the strikers to re- frain from disorder where men are regum ing work.
Otherwise they will alienate public sympathy and strengthen the op posing interests.....
The reports from the districte indicate that the men will vote for an early re- sumption of work.
Four thousand troops are in readiness at Aldershot to leave at a moment's notice.
Trains are in waiting in the
placed in the coalfields.
[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LOANS TO CHINA.
LONDON, March 20th. The Times correspondent, in St. Peter
CANTON.
ĮFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEST.)
CANTON, March 28th. Since the disbanding of the unnecessary soldiers began, crowds of them have been finding their way over to Honarn and burg states that Russia favours the Bel-robberies there are proving the result. gian loan, but objects to the Four Nations Yesterday morning a house was complete Joan to China, on the ground that finan-ly looted in broad daylight in & fairly cial aid to the young Republic must not busy street quite near the river by armei involve an increase in the military bur robbers, so that though they have be dene of the Powers whose dominions are disarmed those mon have been in many conterminous with China. It is held in cases able to procure arms of one kid St. Petersburg that whatever syndicate or another and are bent on making then- may conclude the loan, those Powers must selves a general nuisance. Some tine have a controlling if not an exclusive voice ago there were crowds of soldiers pamd-
phtainable by a joint agreement.
almost like a huge barracks, but now there are very few about, and in the ab- sence of a sufficient number of guards the robbers and pirates, natives and im- portations are making themselves quite at home..
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.Mr. ANDERSON gives the atce on various an export duty on rice, with a view to the sidings, and 10,000 troops can rapidly be in the transaction, which might easily being the streets and the place locked.
SHERRY.
WE
can confidently recommend
| classes of goods from Haiphong to Yunnan- fu, a distance of 481 miles, as ranging from about £4 12a. to over
£12 par metric ton. To this rate the railway.com. pany adde a charge of about 6s. as a "customs" charge, which seems to be designed to cover the clerical ex penses through the Indo-Chino the Chinese customs. This charge has,
the however;
Belected,
and
expenditure of the resulting revenue on roads and other forms of communication. Skrong opposition is being offered to tax- ing rice in this way.
The latest fashion in ladies' hats st
Landon Home is "The Coolie Hat," and paper which gives a picture of the bat "The Chinese Revolution is re- And rays:
sponsible for this latest type of feminine actual connection with headgear." It bears little resemblance, following as Xares Wines of the the customs duties, and is independent of however, to the hat worn by Chinese
the duties levied either in China, whore 70 coolies, except in width of brim. Highest Class, Specially
per cent, of the usual Chinese customs duty. It seems not at all unlikely, says the is collected, or in Indo-China, where 20 per Rungoon Gasette, that in another twenty Shipped direct.
Rangoon will become just as cent. of the full import duty on goods from years or so abroad is collected as a transit tax on goods much a Chinese town as Singapore now thus entering China. The freight rates is. Already there are great numbers of Chinese clerks in responsible positions, are modified somewhat by rates at mercantile houses are stondily for carload lots, but
are increased employing more and more of them, and dozen. bottle for goods of a dangerous nature, consider they take an interest in town affairs which able quantities of which are used in suggests that before very, many years they $16.80 $145 railway construction and mining enterprises. inny dominate the situation as much as
We see no mention in the published abstract they do in Penang or Singapore. of the report of the fact that the Yunnan 1.90 railway has a reduced tariff in favour of 2.05 goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin.
In Quality and Price they are unequalled.
B.
LIGHT DRY ...
VINO DE PASTO
-0.
OLOROSO
ON
Fer Per
17.80
22.30
D. SUPERIOR PALE DRY 24.30
£, FINEST PALE DRY,
NUTTY
29.80
1.50
The preference given amounts to about 10. per cent. in the case of manufactured goods. 255 If ever a large freight traffic develops over the line, it can only be by a substantial reduction of present rates. We have seen the disappointingly small freight traffic on the line ascribed to "the deeply-rooted A. S. WATSON & CO..conservatism of the Chinese"; but the ex-
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HONGKONG, MARCH 30TH, 1912.
MR. CLEMENTI HONOURED. Among our telegrams to-day is one announcing that the Royal Geographical Society has bestowed one of its grants upon Mr. Cecil Clementi, of Hongkong. We presame that this is in recognition of the valuable services rendered to geo-
ANOTHER SPEECH BY THE PREMIER.', Mr. Asquith, in an address in the House of Cominons, dwelt on the wisdom of Par- liament in not fettering the discretion of the joint boards by imposing on them specific figures. He emphasised that the refusal to insert figures must be taken to express no opinion of Parliament that the figures put forward were unreasonable, and pointed out that the movement, as far as a large majority of the miners was
concerned, wan a disinterested one, but the interests of the community ware bo- coming daily increasingly strong, and the country had shown an unexpected wealth of resource in meeting an unexampled crisis.
LEADERS ADVISE RESUMPTION.
The arguments will be communicated to London and Paris after the conclusion of the present exchange of views.
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'S
AWARDS.
LONDON, March 29th. The Royal Geographical Society has awarded the Founders' medal to Mr. Charles Montagu Doughty, a well-known author on travel; the Patrons' medal to
Mr. Douglas, Carruthers, a traveller in Mongolia, Turkestan and Ruwenzori; the Victoria Research medal to Mr. George Darwin; the Murchison Bequest to Capt. Macfie, Uganda Topographical Survey; the Gill Memorial to Captain Bailey, for his travels in Brahmaputra and on the Yangtsze; the Backe Bequest to Sir William
Wallace, Administrator
of,
NEW NOTES AND COINS.
The new notes of the Republican Gov- ernment. for the province of Kwang Tung are now in issue and also the new 10 cent pieces which were mentioned in these The deadlock columns a few days ago. between the butchers and pig dealers over the acceptance of notes is no nearer solu- tion and as a result many dealers' shops are closed yesterday and to-day in conse
quence.
SHAMERN.
Although the European troops have now left the concession the barbed wire en· tanglements, epaulments and other forti- fications are still there, and the Indian
The miners' leaders are now in their districts impressing the importance of the concessions gained, and advising the men in the ballot is sufficient to end the to return to work, and that bare majority Rhodesia, and the Cuthbert Peek Grant troops. have taken up the points, where
struggle.
BIOTING IN STAFFORDSHIRE. Attempts to send down a few men to Mexborough, Great Wyrley, and Walsall yesterday resulted in some rioting and storing of the police. The miners at Chirk and Littleton were working quietly yenter day in the presence of troops,
A MILLION IN STRIKE PAY. · The miners' unions have disbursed The balance 1,043,250 in strike pay. reniaining is nominally £950,000, mostly belonging to Durbem, Yorkshire, Derby-
Numbers of collieries were opened yesterday, and a few men offered to resume.
Contrary to expectation 10,000 Warwickshire miners did not resume.
HELP FRON AUSTRALIA. A Sydney telegram states that Premier McGowan has telegraphed, authorising the Agent General in London to spend £1,000 to provide 50,000 meals for sufferers
from the Coal strike.
THE MINERS' MINIMUM WAGE BILL
graphy by Mr. Clementi on the occasion of his journey in 1987-8 from Kashgar to Kowloon, a distance of approximately perience of railways, generally, in China has
3,091.5 miles, accoraplished with no Euto-shire and Nottingham. The funds in North Wales, Warwickshire, Cumberland, been that, given moderate rates, freight traf pean companion nor any native surveyor.
Somerset and Bristol are exhausted, and fie develops very rapidly, no matter whether He covered the distance in 198 stages. Mr. the lines traverse old trade routes or not. Clementi published last year a summary
the funds of other unions are vanishing. Most of the railways would make a much of his geographical observations, occupy better showing in this respect were it not ing 112 foolscap folio pages of print, and for the iniqutous likin sharges which, in an explanatory note said it was his continue to be levied in spite of China's practice to take observations for latitude agreement ten years ago to entirely abolish and for time every evening at suneet. If.. likin stations. It is due to this cause, for however, the sky was overcast at that instance, that only 10 per cent, of the total re- hour, the native servants he happened to venue of the Shanghai-Nanking line is deriv-have with him sat up by turns throughout ed from freight. In spite of the likin dith the right with orders to call him directly culty, however, the freight trattic is gradually any stars were visible. He calculated the increasing, and the value of the merchandise latitude of 141 places, the longitude of 130 now transported by milways in China, must places, and the height above sea level of 185 places. So far as he was aware, only run into many millions of tools. The pro- eleven of these localities had previously hibitive rates on the Yumaan line appear to been determined in latitude, seven in be leading to interesting developments. We longitude and 68 in height above sea level. learn from the Consular report under notice Mr. Clementi is a member of the Royal that several American manufactures of rail Astronomical Society as well as of the way material have sent a representative to Royal Geographical Society. Mongtze and Yunnanfu and two important locomotive companies also bave men on the spot in connection with the contract to con-
The cremated remains of Mr. Lindsey, struct the proposed line from Tunnanfa to formerly chief resident engineer of the Lanebowfu, on the Yangtso. The matter of British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, were interred at Tiverton Ceme- milway freight from Haiphong to Tunsanfu tery on 24th ult., having remained for two is of such controlling importance, says the days in Blundell's-School Chapel. Canon Consul-General, that the projectors of the Roxby officiated. In addition to several of Mr. Lindsey's relatives there were pre- line are seriously considering the construesit the Headmaster of Blundell's (Mr. tion of a line from Yuouaafu to Napning in A. L. Francis), Mrs. Francis, and Mr. G. Kwangai, as a means of avoiding these ex. II. Normað
THE LATE MR. E. S. LINDSEY."
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
LEGÍBLATIVE COUNCIL INAUGURATED. !
LONDON, March 29th. The House of Lords has passed the re- maining stages of the Coal Bill
NEW ZEALAND TRADES UNION,
FINED.
LONDON, March 29th, A telegram from Wellington states that the Tramwaymen's Union has been fined 100 for a breach of the Arbitration Act, in instigating the recent strike.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
CONCILIATION BILL REJECTED.
LONDON, March 29th.
A piquant scene was witnessed in the House of Commons in the discussion on the Women's Franchise Bill called the
Conciliation Bill, Mr. Asquith as an in- dicinal opposing it, and Sir Edward. Grey
to Mr. Cecil Clementi, of Hongkong.
ITALY AND TURKEY.
LONDON, March 20th: Reuter's orrespondent at St. Peters- burg states that telegrams from Russian sources in Rome foreshadow immediate action by the Italian fleet on the Euro pean and Asiatic shores of Turkey.
ENGLISH RACING.
RESULT OF LIVERPOOL CUP.
LONDON, March 98th. The result of the Liverpool Cup is a follows
Subterranean
(Huxley) 1 Protestant Boy .....(Foy); 2 Adam Bede
(Stokes) 3 Nineteen ran, and the winner won by one and a half lengths, with ene length aeparating second and third.
Betting--11 to 2 against Subterranean, 100 to 7 against Protestant Boy and Adam Bode:
the different sentries and pickets of the Yorkshires were before posted.
CRICKET.
C.G.C. 7. H.K.C,C.
This match will be played this after- noon on the H.K.C.C. ground at 2 p.m. The following will represent the 0.0.0. :— H. H. Tayler, R. A. Carvalho, G. A. Han- cock, L.A. Rose, J. V. Braga, E. L. Braga, W. H. Vivensh, R. Pestonji, J. D. Noris, C. Johnstone, and R. Basa.
HONGKONG ORICKET LEAGUE,
The following is the Lengue table up tơ date-
Club.
1 Craigengewer
2 Civil Barvios 3 R. G A
W
14
14
5
14
H. K. Polles
4 Kowloon... 6 R. E.....
7 KO.Y.LI... 8 Naval Yard
3 points.
N. B.-A win
A draw1 point.
SOLDIERS' CLUB BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
És8839
THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. The following are the probable startars in the Grand National: Jerry M., Pig- gott; Rathnally, Chadwick; Jenkinstown, Payne; Rory O'More, Mason; Caubeen, Newey Bloodstone, F. Lyall Mount Prospect's Fortune, Kelly Glenside, Ussher; Carsey, Drake; Ballyhackle, 1
The concluding games of the round be- Morgan; Kilkeel, Trudgill; Fetiar's Pride,
tween the R. A. Staff and the Hongkong G. Lyall; Sir Halbert, Smith; Regent, Volunteers in the Soldiers' Club Billiard T. Morgan; Bridge IV., Poole; Covert Tournament were played on Thursday coat, Walsh; Axle Pin, Anthony; Whitlegs I., Farrell; Great Cross, Lawn: evening, two very interesting and even Precentor II, A. Aylin; Tuolhardy, games being witnessed by a good num- Owner; Gold Seal IL, Finn; Glenfoder, ber of spectators. The Volunteers quali- Foran; Sans Peur, Kay,
fied for the next round by beating the R. A. Staff by 278 points. Captain Lammert and Master Gunner Fuller were the first pair, and the latter won the game by 34 points, making breaks of 10, 38, 13, 17 (twice) and 12, Captain Lammert making 17, 11, 14 and 13. The second game was between Regimental Sergeant-Major Cut- ler, R.A., and Corpl. Bullock, H.L. Volun- teers.
The betting is to 1 against Rathaally offered after 100 to 30 taken, 6 to 1 Jerry M., 10 to 1 Rory O'More, 100 to 9 Caubeen, 100 to 8 Carney, 100 to 7 Jen kinatown, and 100 to 6 Covertcoat.
CIS, WOOL DUTIES:
LONDON, March 29th. A telegram from Washington states that the Democrats have reintroduced the Wool Revision Bill, vetoed by Mr. Taft in 1911. This makes legislation on the
It was seen froin the commence- nient that both were cueists of no mean ability, each putting up a first class gane. Bergt-Major Cutler won by 22, his "highest breaks being 14. 30, 23. 17 (twice).
11 and 12. Full scores :——
replying to the Premier's arguments with wool duties impossible before the elec and 20, his opponent compiling 13, 15, 28,
equal vigour.
tions.
WALFISCH BAY RUMOUR.
LONDON, Mare 28th, During question time in the Louse of
imaware of any grounds for contemplating the cession of. Walfisch Bay,
A CONSULAR report by the American Concessive charges, as wellas opening up Yunnan -sul General in Hongkong (M: 9. A and West Ching by the now route. This read- ANDERSON) has recently been, published | would give communication by road and dealing with railways, existing and pros water with Hongkong and Caston. This pective, in Yunnan. Importers, he says, enterprise, the Consul adds, is not exactly Straits Settlements received a telegram 222 votes to 208. This result was a sur... Elis Excellency the Governor of the The Conciliation Bill was rejected by who expected a revolution in the trade en alternative of the construction of from Sir West Ridgoway, dated 21st, inprise and was received with tremendous of Yunnan and Kwangsi, as a result what is known 2.8 the Szechuan rail which he says:- of the working of the railway from way, but it seems
to be generally | Council. It was a very impressive cere- passed the second reading of similar Bills Commons, Sir Edward Grey said he was
"I yesterday inaugurated a Legislative enthusiasm, the House of Commons having Haiphong to Yunnanfu, have come to the understood that the construction of mony, and Europeans, natives and Chi by large majorities. The minority includ conclusion that, under present conditions, the railway to Nanning will postpone the nese were extremely gratified. The Counciled Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Birrell, Bir much of the expected expansion will prove construction of the line from Yunnanfu Unofficial Merabers, including representa Edward Grey, Messrs.
consists of six Official Members and four
John Burns, impossible. There has been a considerable to the Yangtzo. The aurvey work of the tives from the East and West Coasts, Runciman, Balfour, Bunar Law, Lyttle increase in some lines of trade into and from line to Nanning is being rapidly completed planters, the general community and the
ton, Wyndham, and the Labourites. The Chinese,' these provinces, but the increase has been and the immediate constraction of either the
majority included Messrs. Asquith, Har- dua, to some extent at least, to generally Szechuan railway or the line to Na ning
court, Hobhouse, McKenna, Churchill, improved conditions and mining and other seems to depend entirely upon the early
Smith, and the Nationalist party. Samuel, Austen Chamberlain, F. Etaining a written statement that Mann internal development is the provinces, and in settlement of political disturbances in Ching
would not repent his statements inciting spite of drawbacks due to railway conditions. generally,
the soldiers to mutiny. action of the Nationalists was due to a desire to save the Government a week of ANGLO-RUSSIAN LOANS TO PERSIA. Parliamentary time. SUFFRAGISTS RELEASED ON BAIL.
The usual direct results of railway service have been minimised by interrupted service, The Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamer Shinyo Varu made her first call at Manila last troublesome customs and other charges,
week. and particularly by bigh freight rates. In spite of the opening of the railway, goods Sentence of three months' imprisonment are still imported into. Yunnan, Kweichow, was passed upon a Chinese yesterday at and West China through Burma, thence by the Magistracy for having stolen a quanti pack to Tengyuel, and then to Batang,ty of copper rivets from the Naval Yard.
about 400 miles north, or to Talifu, and Two reinforced concrete "apartment even to Yunnanfu, whence the goods are houses" are being built by the Manila distributed all over that part of the country, Improvement Company. These new apart as they have been since the beginning of mente are to be an innovation in the way the trade. These costly means and tedious of buildings for Maails, each building routes are used in spite of what would seem having four distinct apartments, built to be the manifest advantages of the rail much as in the United States. They are route to Yunnanfu or to intermediate points to be started immediatel on the corner
of Divisoria and Dakota Ermita.
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NEW BATTLE CRUISER. The order for the new battle cruiser has been given by the Admiralty to Messrs. John Brown & Co., Sheffield. A consider able portion of the work, specially con- nected with the supply of furbine machinery, will be carried out at the Atlas Works in Sheffield. The ship will be the biggest and most powerful warship afloat. She will be an improvement on the Queen Mary, and will include the latest advance in turbine machinery.
EASTERN SHIPPING AND THE
COAL SHORTAGE,
We take the following from the Straite Times of the 20th inst
The
LONDON, March 29th..
The militant suffragists who made a demonstration at the Albert Hall on the 5th inst, including the. Pethick Law-
rences,
wore released yesterday on A £7,000 bail. A message was read from Miss Christabel Pankhurst, written by her on the 10th inst. in which she defied the
FRANCO-SPANISH NEGOTIATION S.
The NYK. mail steamer Aki Maru hound for London was due to sail at Government. 4 p.m. yesterday, but in consequence of cable advice from Colombo that no coal would be available for her there she went to the East Wharf and bunkered a suffi- cient quantity to take her through to Port Said. She left for home at Ba.m. to-day.
LONDON, March 29th.
The Franco-Spanish negotiations in Morocco show no progress whatever.
MANN FURTHER REMANDED.
LONDON, March 29th. Tom Mann has been further remanded. Bail was allowed on the Magistrate ob-
C. S. M. (EG.) Gillman..
Captain Brierley
Master Gunner Muir...... 250
Pte. Hamilton ...
203
Mr. Barlow
250
Major Kirke
128
Cir. Sergt. Rodgers
250
124
Pte. Bishop!
260
#11
Master Gunner Brown ....250
Pte. Phillips
235
Mr. McLennan in..
***** 250
Captain Guthrie
Jas
Master Gunner Fuller
250
Captain Lammert,
216
R 8. M. Cutler.... Corp. Rullock
250
$21
TIBET.
LONDON, March 29th: Reuter's correspondent at Teheran A telegram from Kalimpong dated states that in view of the satisfactory na- March 9th says:- ture of the reply of Persia to the Anglo-Lhasa left here to-day for Calcutta after The Chinese secretary to the amban at Russian Note, Great Britain and Ituasie waiting without success for an interview have cüch advanced £100,000 to Persia.
THE WESTRALIAN TYPHOON.
LONDON, March 29th. A Perth message states that the steam- er Koombane has not been heard of. She carried 18 passengers and a crew of 77.
NEW ZEALAND PREMIERSHIP.
with the Dalai Lama, Reports have reached here that two thousand fresh Chinese troops have arrived in Lhasa and that some Chinese officials are on their way here to try and obtain an interview. with the Dalai Lama, The Tibetan Prime Minister, who is now in Calcutta, is ex- pected back here shortly. There is con- siderable anxiety and speculation among Tibetan officials here as to the result of his visit to Calcutta. It is difficult for A Wellington message states that Sir them to appreciate the neutral position Joseph Ward has resigned and that Mr.taken by the British officials with whom Mackenzie has assumed the Premiership. they have to deal.
LONDON, March 28th.