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THE PLAGUE HOSPITAL NURSING STAFF.
The plague hospital has been opened and a few cases have been received into
it. When we see that the Canossan Sisters are giving their services as nureca at the hospital free, it must bring the blush of shame to the checks of those who treated these inoffensive ladies so crucil in November, 1910. Nursing in a plague hospital is not attractive even when good pay is offered, and it is extremely
NOTE AND NEWS.
A BAPTISMAL CHANT,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 818T, 1912.
STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS: 4 [CHINA'S FINANCIAL DEADLOCK, | immediately" in accordance therewith."
On March 8th, then, the bankors paid over to the Chinese Government the
INTIMATIONS
RECORDS ESTABLISHED IN PAST YEAR. DETAILS OF THE BELGIAN LOAN equivalent of 1,015,000 tnes, as requested SUN PILSENER
DISPUTES OF TRANSPORT, WORKERS, A Willesden eurate, having discovered, after conducting many baptismal ser
According to the ninth report of 'pro- vices, that babies invariably cry in maje» thirds or diminished sevenths, bas settecedings under the Conciliation (Trades lady of which consists entirely of these issued by the Board of Trade, the num Penitential Paulins to a chant-tune, the Disputes) Act, 1998, which has just born ber of workpeople involved in disputes tausing a stoppage of work in 1911 was the highest in any year since statistics
intervals.
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THE SUSPENDED PURSE AND THE BIG MUFF.
The Sunday Calf suggests that the year 10 will go down to history as the year This muff, it seems, is the terror of the of the suspended purse and the big muff. department store management and the purse is the confirmed sorrow of the shopper. For the first is the weapon of of the pickpocket,
of trade disputes have been recorded by the department. There were ninety-tw cases in which action was taken under the Acl, and fifty-seven of these involved
DIFFICULTY;
The Times correspondent at Peking sent to his journal a full statement regard
until the oth inst,, and as it is the most was het, hancial doublished in The met was not, however, The Times ample and most lucid statement vet published on the subject, we have pleasure in reproducing it
The deadlock between the tiovernment and the Four Nations Banks (the to the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, the Deutsch kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Asiatische Bank, and the AmericanGroup) continues, and China's financial reeds be
by the Acting Minister of Finance on March 2nd.
THE ANGLO-112LGIAN, LOAN CONTRACT,
Farther advances wore asked for, and authority was given by their principals in Europe to the Banks to make these advances, including the payment of 1,000,000 Laels immediately to Wuchang Notice of such authorization was given this very day, March 14th, and this is the reason of the protest of the Banks, to Mr. Tang Shadyi on March 14th. On
Mr. Tang Shui, without disclosing anything of the negotiations to the Four Banks, signed a contract with the Anglo- Helgian Syndicate for a Ionn
larger loan to be negotiated later. The For Banks considered this action to be, a violation of the letter and spirit of the engagement entered into with them by the President on March 8th, whereby they had been given the firm option to finance the further requirements of the Government up to and including August,
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fortunate that the Canossai Sistors the shoplifter and the second is the prey / stoppage of work, these manhers being come daily more pressing. As our readers C1,000,000 as an advance upon a such
have regained here to offer, their ser
views.
The
"CONSTONER LETTENS.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF DELHI.
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The Indian Government have granted a concession for the utilisation of the Upper Jumona in the generation of the proposed works is a strip of the river electricity for lighting Delhi. The site of about twelve miles long sonte 180 miles above Delhi. The firet installation is to be of 5,300 kwt, but this can ultimately be increased to 18,000 kwl. mission line will be 140 miles long and The trans- have a maximum height of 3,000ft. above sea-level.
FRANCE AND THE TOTALISATOI.
ht Postnaster-General
Been directing his attention to the consigner --letters" which the Macao steamers have been abeustomed to carry. One day last werk all such letters were confiscated by the Postminster, and the compradore was figed 9. The action of the Posttruster caused considerable delay in the delivery of cargo. Now, it serins that 'a- postul' official, armed with a cancelling chop, is
In reply to the written question for M. to attend at the wharves daily on the the Ministry of Finance has published Leroy-Beaulieu, Deputy of Montpellier, arrival of the steamers from Hongkong the amounts of the State profits in con- for the purpose of cancelling the stamps nection with the tax on the totalisator on the covers. Surdy if the Post Office and on gates of chance. A 15 per cent. undertakes to do this, they should also tax un games of chance from November 1st, 1910, to December 31st, 1911, realised undertake the prompt delivery of the £288,162 in the Mother Country and letters. zy10c
throw not
back that £4,920 in Algeria. A 1 per cent. deduc
tion to the ship's con- £149,818 last year in France and £90 in on the totalisators brought in. pradores. This meddicsome interference | Algeria. A further deduction on the with a long established custɛin Causes
totalisator receipts, which is devoted to charitable purposes. amounted to great annoyance in trade circles.
£209,6081:
responsibility on
THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.
It is stated that Br. Americo de Bonza has been appointed, Chief Justice of the Colony, and is on his way out.
TE ATINO DOVERNDE. Spior Miranda, who will nei Governor during the absence on leave of Sr. Machado, is expreted in the middle of June.
INDEN TO THE REVISED EDITION
OF THE COLONY'S LAWS. The Chronological Table and. Index to ab Ordinances of the Colony from 1894 to 1911, compiled by Sir Francis Piggoti· for Volume I and
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THE WAITER'S NAPKIN,
The British Medical Jograal makes this statement regarding the napkin of the waiter We have seen this soiled piece of papery used by a waiter in the intervals of serving his customers quite im artially, whether it was to dust his transers, or his boots, or even to wipe his perspiring forehead, and on more than one occasion to wipe his nose! A moment later he is perhaps rubbing the plate of patron with this same napkin, which, when not being employed in any of the multifarions duties outlined above, is generally reposing in orthodox fashion in the armpit of a dusty and probably greasy evening cont.
A PARADOX AND ITS EXPLANATION.
considerably greater than in any previous year since the Act came into force. The following table shows the number of cases dealt with in each successive year-
NUMBER OF CARES.
Not Involving involving stoppage stoppage of work, of work.
9
12
Year. 1890 1697
Total
2
37
14
1809
12
- Li
1
1899
11
5
1900
31
3
8
1901
20
B
1902
21
10
17
100%
0
1905
12
4
1905
14
3
11
1906
20
12
1907
24
1909
36
1909
57
33
1910
67
40
1911
02
35
260
Total 521
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no doubt know, the deadlock has been brought about by the action of China in signing on March 14 a loan contract with an Anglo-Belgian syndicate without re ference to the Four Nations Banks, who claim that the loan was an infringement of rights previously accorded to them. They have accordingly presented through their Ministers a formal protest against the loan and, ponding settlement, have suspended-negotiations. The loan cou tract to which they take exception is for £1,000,000, to be followed subsequently by a still larger loan, amounting in all to £10,000,000, and it is, as regards the earlier amount, secured upon the income and property of the Peking-Kalgan Rail way. It was signed by the President himself, and is in English, the foreign signatories being the Agent of the Banque Sino-Belge and the English representative of the Eastern Banking Corporation.
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BEER.
Nothing like › it
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.
The Four Banks now contend that the communication of March 9th amounted to a contract whereby they were given the firm and exclusive option to furnish all the monthly requirements of the Government up to and including August, that good faith to the bankers requiredi that when they were solicited to advance large surus of money, which they subar- quently, did advance to the Chinese Government, they should have been fully informed as to all other contracts for the borrowing of other large sums of money from other banks or persons whereby the debts of the Government would be increased and the value of the securities of the overment in the narkots of the world materially dopri- ciated; and that the suppression of such a material fact as the negotiations with the Anglo-Belgian group was A grave injustice calenlated to destros confidence WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
advanced.
On March 25 the four Ministers con- cerned together waited upon the Pre sident, and handed him an aide-memaire reciting their reasons for supporting the Banks in protesting against the injustice that had been done them. It is much to be regretted that one of the first acts done Of the 92 cases, dealt with last year, by the President since his inauguration 1 arose in building trades,. 10 in the should have invoked a protest from four metal, engineering, and shipbuilding of the chief Powers. No blame, however, and to justify the Four Iks in trades, 4 in the mining and quarrying is attached to the President. Respondemanding the immediate retur. of the industries, 8 in the boot and shoe trade, sibility for the transaction lies with the moneys which they had previously
in transport trades, and 9 in textile Prime Minister, Mr. Tang Shao-yi. All trades. During the whole period since the documawats referred to in the memoran- the Act came into operation the casas dum were written in English, and the dealt with have been distributed among President does not know English. In the various trades as follows:-Building affixing his signature he was acting on the trades, 146; metal, engineering, and advice of his Prime Minister, who is a shipbuilding trades, 90; mining and finished English scholar. In the lengthy quarrying industries, 58; boot and sane document submitted by the four Ministers trade, 66; transport trades, 48; textile the case of the Four Banks is lucidly and trades, 87; printing trades, 19; all other cogently stated. No charge of bad faith trades, 64. The fifty-seven cases which is brought, but it is clearly shown that a involved a stoppage of work last year blunder has been committed which ought effected in the aggregate nearly 565,000 to be rectified, work-people.
in,
1 understand that the English and French Ministers will submit a further protest against the Anglo-Belgian Loan, in the ground that the terms of its security infringe the terms of Article 5 Peking-Hankow of the Anglo-French £5,000,000 Railway Redemption Loan of October th, 1509.-
THE LASCAR SEAMAN.
The statement published by the P. &O. Company this morning (says the Pull- Mall Gazette of the 10th inst.) convers incidentally a salutary warning to those
who are now discussing Lascar sailors in terms of contemptuous abuse. It will be
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NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FOUR BANKS. Until Yuan Shib-kai's election as Pre- The most implant dispates in whichsident was confirmed, on February 15, by action was taken by the department were the Assembly in Nanking, there were two the general strike of seamen, dockers, Governments in China, and strict neut- and other transport workers, which com- A correspondent sends to the Glasgounced in June, the strike of dockers rality required that no foreign financial Herold a paradoxical problem which he and other transport workers in London assistance should be given to either Gov- ernment. After February 15th there was believes originally appeared in Piesse's in August, the national strike of rail-
Chymical, Natural, and Physical If of his revised edition of the Ordin-Magic. published some 50 years ago. of cotton operatives in North and Northno time in seeking from the Four Nations
waymen, also in August, and the lockout no longer need to enforce this restriction. well if the public is slow to pass swerp and accordingly the President then losting condemnation on the basis of a sing.
recent occurrence. ances is now published. will i Two perons were born at the same place, East Lancashire in Decenter.
All men praise the Banks the financial help which is coun- splendid Native Army of India, and readily understood that it is by no at the same moment of time. Fifty years
Transport trades constitute
try, disorganized by the revolution, so Beitish troops are glad to be brigaded incans an easy task to compile a full and after, they both died, also at the same
dustry in which the largest nu her of urgently needed during its period of re with crack native regiments. The genuine spot, and at the same instant; yet one satisfactory index to the whole range had lived 100 days more than the other.
cases occurred during the year, twenty organization.
Lasears of Western India are hereditary of the Colonial statutes, which cover a The possible solution turns on a curious
one cases affecting workpeople employed Mr. Chou Tzu-chi, Acting Minister of sailors, just as Rajputs and Sikhs are Finance, an official who enjoys equal hereditary soldiers. They are born to the period of 67 years, but Sir Francis but very obvious point in cireum-naviga. in those trades being dealt with, as com
tion. A person going round the world pared with three in the previous year extrem among Chinese and foreigners. They manned the fine Indian Navy, Piggott has done this very desirable towards the west loses a day; going to and-twenty-seven in the whole of the opened the negotiations co behalf of which was most-unwisely abolished in the work with a thoroughness and ability wards the east he gains one. Suppose, period 1800-1910. In eighteen of these Chinn. In conference with the Four fifties, and its chronicles are full of a stoppage of work occurred Banks he stated that during the period examples of their valour and fearlessness. which will earn the gratitude 1 valy then, two persons born together at the cases
have involved in the of reorganization 6,400,000 taels per month Whatever may have happened of late, it off the legal profession but also of all Cape of Good Hope, whence a voyage estimated to
round the world may be performed in a aggregate nearly 345,000 workpeople, † would be required, and that an additional
is quite certain that these men, as a class, fasinen who may have occasion to refer year; if one performas this constantly to The cases affected all branches of the 2,000,000 tasis were urgently needed for
have not deteriorated. Are we to ask India to llp us to fight our battles, and to the Colonial law on any subject what wards the west, in 50 years he will be transport trade and occurred in all parts the use of the authorities at Nanking, On
yet call its sailors cowards afoat? That AVIT. As an instance of the copiousness 50 days behind the stationary inhabit of the country. In twelve of the cases February 26 Mr. Tang Shao-vi arrived in
was not the spirit of the King's adrice of the index we may mention that under ants; and if the other sail equally the department took action on its own Peking and took charge of the negotia
to this country on his return in February. towards the east, he will be 30 days in initiative, no application being received tions. On February 27 he notified the
·Banks that 2,000,000 taels were required One, therefore, will from the parties.
Let us be chary in denvinciation until the imediately and urgently for Nanking,
facts are more clearly known. and for the month of March Nanking and require an additional 5,000,000 taels. For the same month Peking would
of the Board of Trade whether there was Further, that the Gov
guarantee any
that Jascara engag- require 3,000,000 tasis, making in ali
ed On British ships really be- 10,000,000 taels. of 8,400,000 tnels for each of the months
lunged to Asiastic Haine seafar rnment would require loans or advances up to and including August, one half the amount to be used in Peking and the other races, caster, and tribes, and did not include conlies, ex-sepoys, and others un- Mr. Tang Shao-yi half down South. further said that by July the Government accustomed to the sea; whether such CLOCKS
on the part of the Government of India'; would be ready to negotiate a comprehen- recruitment was under any sapervision sive loan of £60,000,000, the advances and, if not, whether, in order to ensure, which he now solicited being defrayed out
as far as may be, the safety of passengers of its proceeds. Sterling Treasury Bills
on British ships any supervision was con- were to he issued, to be secured as a
templated. secondary charge upon the Salt Gabelle. Pursuant to his request the Banks on Friday, February 28th, paid the 2,000,000 tacls to the Nanking authorities,
the bonding Companies four pages advance of then of references to provisions in the com- have soên 190 days more than the other. pany law of the Colony are given. By the aid of this index one MON
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MEDICAL SERVICE ON SHIPS,
RECOINISED FEES TO SUPERSEDE GRATUITIES,
A MASONIC SENSATION.
The
In the House of Commons on the 9th inst., Sir J. D. Rees naked the President
Mr. Buxton-The engagement in India of lascara as scamen on board British ships is allowed by section 125 of the Mer- chant Shipping Act, 1894. I am informed On February 29th mutiny broke out in by the India Office that such seainen sign Peking, the riot continuing until the even-
an agreement in a form sanctioned by the
Anong the nineteen-disputes in the metal, engineering, and shipbuilding The declaration that the initiation into trades there were twelve which involved readily turn to the law upon any parti-} Freemasonry of Jack Johnson, the In stoppage of work affecting 10,000 cular point, without having to waste world's champion pugilist, is null and people, sed 190,000 workmen were affect Line searching, so to speak, for theroid, has been followed by equally drastic ed by the strikes in the textile trade, action with regard to the initiating the most important of which was the needle in the bundle of hay. The Table Lodge. The Lodge at which the famous lockout of cotton operatives in North and and Index make a volume of over 270 pugilist was initiated was the Forfar and North-East Lancashire in Deceraber.
With regard to the Industrial Council, Kincardine Lodge of Dundee. circumstances surrounding the initiation which was established last suturon, with of Jobuson were recently investigated by Sir George Askwith as chairman, the a committee, and, as a result of their report reminds us tha: the Chief Indus- report, the Grand Lodge at Edinburgh trial Commissioner's Department was at annulled the proceedings at the meeting the same time establishe, Sir George at which Johnson was admitted. During Askwith being the Chief Commissioner, the past werk the Grand Committee has and that the existing Board of Trade been sitting in Edinburgh to consider what powers of conciliation and arbitration disciplinary steps should be taken. The are now exercised through this depart Master and three Past Masters of the ment. A committee of four members of Dunder Lodge, accompanied by a legal the Industrial Council was appointed to representative, appeared before the act with the chairman, and this cosumitter
on a number of occasions last year meting of Saturday, March 2nd. Reports of India Government. The men are recruit- ome Grand Coramittee.
representatives of parties in dispute, and the disturbances telegraphed throughouted in India through the agency of persons made proposals with a view to bringing the world seriously impaired the credit licensed by the Indian Government; and of China in the world's money markets. the engagement takes place under the about a settlement.
On March 2nd, Mr. Chou Trucki, on
supervision of offieer appointed under behalf of the President, wrote to the four the Indian Merchant Shipping Acts. I Bankers, asking them to advance to China am not aware that there in any guarantse the sum of 1,015,000 taels wherewith to of the nature indicated by the hon. mem. pay the Chinese Legations and Consulates her, but a large proportion of liscars are abroad, and provide half month's pay hereditary sailors. for the Manchi and Chinese troops. Mr. Chou Tzu-chi stated that in the present disturbed condition of affairs the Presi- dent fully understood that they would re- quire to consult with their respective Ministors before making the advance, and he asked them to do this is quickly as possible.
The solicitor pre-
It is satisfactory to note, says The les pital, that there is every possibility that the ship surgeon is at last getting that justice of treatment which he has vainly asked for during the past century. Some of the great passenger-carrying lines have sented a statement in explanation and now adopted the principle of allowing the extenuation. The Grand Committee surgeon in charge of a ship to demand finally decided that the Lodge shall be payment for his services from first-class passengers. When it is remembered that suspended till November, 1915, that the a large steamship carries hundreds of Master be suspended for two years, and passengers, every one of whom has the each of the three Past Masters for one right-or has hitherto had the right-of year. This judgment will come before, demanding free treatment and advice the Grand Lodge at Edinburgh for rati from the ship's doctor, it will nasily be fication. It may be recalled that John- son's initiation in October last was the understood how revolutionary the new
In the past the occasion of quite a demonstration. John- régime promises to be. ship's doctor has had to work his hardest son arrived early in the morning from Newcastle, and, as he was desirous of on board those ships. although his rate
returning to fulfil a music-hall engage- of payment was no greater than that
mont the same night, the meeting of the granted to surgeons staffing smaller boats where the service was much less onerous. Lodge, which had been summoned for The greater part of such work has been noon, was accelerated by a couple of done gratuitously, Where & passenger hours, intimation of the change being
nude by special messengers. belonging to the rare genus of the grateful patient so cordially appreciated the care and attention paid to him on the voyage as to testify his gratitude in a practical shape that testimony has always been in the nature of a “tip, a form of res uneration common enough, as the butler
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WHITE STAR LINE ORDERS COLLAPSIBLE BOATS.
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THE CHINESE LOAN.
"A PROSPECT OF IMMENSE DANGERS.
The Pall Mall Gazette of the 3rd inst says —
THE SILVER MARKET.
The following extracts are taken from Messrs. Samuel Montagu & Co.'s bullion. circular of May 9th:-
Sir. Edward Grey's statements yester day on the subject of Chinese loans are hardly satisfactory. It is technically
On March 8th a favourable reply was The undertone of the Silver Market true that the loan negotiations eatail no pecuniary liability upon the British Government. The actual fact, is that they sent to the President. On that das an continues good. The inquiry has been impose enormous liabilities upon the exchange of Notes took place between the mainly on account of Indian speculators. people of this country, who are not hack Four Banks and the President. In the In London also a certain amount of atering for a five per cent profit. Sir communication from the Banks it was speculative buying is manifested at any Edward Grey says that our own and other stated that "it is understood and agreed considerable set-back, and subsequent Governments will require adequate that the Banke, shall have a firm option profit taking has hitherto checked quota- guarantees for the useful expenditure of to provide the further monthly require- tions from advancing much beyond 19d.
We learn, unofficially, the following in one of Mr. Shaw's plays remarks, but The White Star Line have ordered the the loans, and security for the repaymentiments of the Chinese Government for the
Once the months of March, April, May, June, and three items of rews-The silver produc- of principal and interest. one which is particularly anauitable for earliest possible despatch of a large num medical work. It is therefore not to be ber of the Danish inventor, Captain Engelbauks have got their rake-offs," it will possibly July and August, and that in tion of the Cob.It district in Canada for assistance thus 1911 shows an increased value of about. These craft really be nobody's business to see how the consideration of
China in the Widered that the impression has arisen hardt's, collapsible boats.
presento per ceal. over that for 1010, but that it that the ship's doctor, as a class, does incur carry from thirty to sixty persons,uency is spent When China fails to rendered
need meet bor liabilities, as assuredly she will emergency and of their services in sup
is very improbable that a higher level of ferior work as compared with his and are 28ft, long by 0ft wide. They
if the contracts huge new loans, the purting her credit in foreign markets, prices could lead to any material increase wolleague, the private practitioner, on only very small space, and can be drawn
in the matpat. Jan.
Nothing can be further from the together like umbrellas. Captain Engel foreign Governments will have to inter the Chinese Government is to assure to
The production in Mexico for last year hardt's boats are known and recognised
That opens up a prospect of the Banks the firm option of providing truth than this supposition.
by the British naval anthorities. Danish immense dangers. We shall have done no the larger loan (of £60,000,000) previously was four million ounces less than that of experts state that eighty of Engelhardt's good to China, we shall, probably, have proposed to them, provided their terms 1910; this is not surprising when the civil war and ineidental unrest is remembered. lost our money, and we shall have im- are equally advantageous to those other- | boats could have been placed in various
In his reply the Presi
The world's pruduction for the last four perilled our trade. It was a bad day for wise obtainable." spots on the Titanic's gigantic decks with- out any inconvenience, and that this would British interests in the Far East when dent said in writing:-"I hereby confirm years is as follows:--1808, 203,186,3700z.; 1909, 211,215,633or.; 1910, 222,879, 3030z.; mean lifeboat accommodation for more
the Foreign Office became a West End the arrangements and conditions above
stated, and request you to proced 1911, 203, 706, 11767 than 4,000 people.
branch of financial syndicates.
A fine of $500 was imposed on a Chinese at the Magistracy yesterday for being in possession of lottery tickets with the in- tention of selling them.
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